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SUNNY SOUTH SAM VISITS UNCLE SAM - By D.W. Winkworth FOURUM - Last Summer at Leagrave THIRTIES FILE - Chesterfield Central by Paul Anderson Riley's Railway Roundabout - A Snow Hill Monday, 21 March 1960 WAR REPORT - New Stages for Old Notes by Ian Sixsmith - Three big renewal projects undertaken on the GWR in wartime. Simple to identify them, surely? One, yes, but where were the other two? THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL SOUTHERN REGION CIVIL ENGINEERS A READER WRITES SPOT THE SHED EVENING STAR Comes to Old Oak - The last steam locomotive completed for British Railways, 92220 EVENING STAR, strikes various poses at Old Oak, before going on to its intended home in South Wales. A NICE PIECE OF WENSLEYDALE BIG 'UNS AT STAFFORD - Notetfty Allan C Baker BRITAIN'S NEW RAILWAY: FIRST TIME AROUND 92220 IN A PICKLE - After leaving Old Oak (see above) EVENING STAR went on to hard labours at Canton, with a couple of distinguished summers on the Somerset and Dorset thrown in. It went back to South Wales in 1963 but, with its Canton home going over to diesels, it was to Cardiff East Dock. There, it figured in an odd event... CAMBERWELL BEAUTY - Notes by D.W. Winkworth - Camberwell: 'A pleasant retreat of those citizens who have a taste for the country whilst their avocations daily call them to town'.
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It has been shown that the diesel locomotive has made striking advances in the United States - indeed, it might not be putting the claims of the diesel electric locomotive too high to state that no single development in the history of American railroads has had so fundamental and so widespread an influence in so short a period of time. It is, by now, incontrovertible that the diesel electric locomotive is, if properly maintained, an efficient means of motive power; compared with the steam locomotive, it has many operating advantages - it attracts passenger traffic and, in suitable workings, shows good financial results'. Not really what we want to hear of course, but diesels were the way ahead by the end of the 1940s; it was non-technical factors, such as the inability to afford the new traction, that extended the life of steam in this country. The quote above is from the report of a Southern Railway delegation to the United States in 1946, and it mirrored experience on the other big British companies. For the mysterious connections between all this and a painting that long adorned the wall of the office of the general manager at Waterloo Station, see SUNNY SOUTH SAM VISITS UNCLE SAM
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