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FEATURES: THIRTIES FILE: LOOKING BACK AT THE MIKADOS - Some Notes by Peter Coster - The excellent photographs in the piece by 'Oliver Bury' (Vol.9 Nos. IT- 12, August/September 2000) made an enormous impact fuelling, it turned out, a thirst for more. Through the good offices ofGavin Whitelaw we're now able to present yet another round of gorgeous, striking new photographs of these vast engines. Peter Coster has been good enough to put together some reflective notes on the P2s for. though their introduction and the controversy over their rebuilding might be long dead, it is still possible to breath a glow into the old embers of the Mikados and the attitudes of those in authority at the time. DOG IN THE MANGER? - The 'Track of the Ironmasters' by Paul Anderson For this sequel to The Dog's Got Your Description (BRILL Vol. 10 No.9) our own Pevsner felt compelled to come up with a canine name again. Who was the dog and where was the Manger? Read on... HIGH BORN LADIES ON SHED - Notes by Allan C. Baker BIGGIN HILL AT IPSWICH - A Second Look at Bulleid Pacifies on 'The Swedey' IN SEARCH OF BEDLAM - Keith Miles Bedlam turns out to be a rather homely little signalbox in the north of Coventry. For Keith Miles it was like going home...- FROM A FOOTBRIDGE THEM TWO BIG 'OLES OF SMOKE - By Keith Miles - The true story of one of Britain's first railway tunnels; it is easy to overlook the spectacular engineering brio with which these great tunnels were undertaken. Tunnels on this scale and number constituted a new science after all, yet the engineers embarked upon them with equanimity. And of course, in a thoroughly different age, the concomitant disasters, when they occurred, as inevitably they did, raised few eyebrows. The mighty Watford tunnels were no exception, and we have the benefit of a dispassionate technical report on one of the worst accidents: 'On examination of the tunnel by the heading or driftway, it is found on the north of the shaft to be filled up and that on the south side the brickwork has been very little injured. Portions of the remains of four men who were crushed and are completely dead can be observed on this side but an attempt to extricate the bodies through the heading would be attended with the certain loss of more lives.' REGULARS: SAVE THAT NEGATIVE! FOURUM - Average Day on the Steam Railway DIESEL DAWN - New in Blue - Allan C Baker - The Ice Cream Cart' new, or nearly new, on show - but where? NOCTURNE - An unsung hero of 'glasshouse shunts', a doodlebug that was also a guinea pig; was Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 43027 a better return on money than 6106? Probably. Kiley's Railway Roundabout - Suffolk Borders, June 1958 A READER WRITES SPOT THE SHED
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