Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
maunsell's magical 'moguls' - To non-Southern enthusiasts, R.E.L. Maunsell's 2-6-Os could be difficult to tell apart. David Thrower begins a major new series on the four classes with a 'bluffer's guide' to how to recognise them. 50 years of mancunian memories - You can never have too much of a good thing, but even so, Manchester was perhaps over-provided with the railways, served by no fewer than six pre-Grouping companies and two joint undertakings. In the first part of another new series, Roger Eckersley unravels the railways in the Manchester area great scotts! - The great Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott inspired dozens of locomotive names over the years. Regular contributor Frank Hornby rounds up the Scott 'namers'. darkroom discoveries - Keith Pirt is best-known for his top-class colour photography but this month he begins a two- part selection of black and white pictures taken in Scotland. comment - On the 50th anniversary of the Harrow and Wealdstone disaster, the Editor asks if safety standards on our railways have really improved. call attention - Our item in the July issue about rail cruises in North Wales triggered a big response from readers who remembered these luxurious tours. three cheers for the western' - Photographer and former signalman Jim Oatway presents an impeccably tumed-out GWR engine. what, where, when? - A 'Britannia' and a 'B16' are the subjects of this month's WWW?, and we have the results of the August competition. whys and wherefores of the severn & wye! - Steam World regular John Stretton continues his pictorial journey along the line through the Dean Forest. in safe hands: the stan hall story - In the latest part of his fascinating series, signalfew and safety expert Stan Hall concludes his account of his spell as Assistant Yard Master at Heath don's desperate dash - Things are hotting up - literally and metaphorically - on the footplate of Fowler 2-6-0 No.2327, in the latest part of Terry Esserys entertaining series steam's the theme - After his examination of the 4-4-0Ts in the September issue, Neville Steal presents four photographs of another unusual tank type 0-8-T0s platform - Steam World received a number of responses to a letter from a 6-year-old enthusiast seeking identification of a mystery railway badge. A 'stranger' strolls down stewart's lane - The task of preparing and disposing locomotives during the summer months at a large depot like Stewart's Lane was a huge one, recalls former Shedmaster R.H.N. Hardy all things considered - The former Head of the National Railway Museum, Andrew Dow, provides some more must-be-read opinion on an aspect of steam history. reviews - A new book on the railways of Cumbria comes under our reviewers' microscope this month. express engines extraordinary - In part two of his series about '9F' 2-10-0s on passenger workings, David Percival documents their duties in the Western Region. next issue - Our monthly appetiser for the fare that's due to be served up in the November issue of Steam World. On the cover: Climbing Hatton Bank is Collett 'Castle' 4-6-0 No. 5007 Rougemont Castle,with a Paddington-Villa Park foorball special, in March 1962.
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