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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue

Glasshouse - by George Reeve

War Report

DIESEL DAWN - Second Salvo

STATION SURVEY - New Street Birmingham - by Mike Hitches

Hitchin's Hundred - by David Percival

Female Charm by Stephen Summerson

Night and Day

Stranger in the Night - by John Aviard

Thirties File

Modelling Moment

Cover Photo. Strange times on the Ainmouth - Ainwick line, 20th May 1966. Now a V2 on this line was odd fare indeed, and the story goes that this particular loco had been hijacked by Ainmouth shed. Readers' comments would be most welcome if any of what follows is wrong, but it makes a good tale for all that. 60836 was a Scottish engine at the time, at Dundee, and had wandered up to Tyneside with a freight. It had run hot, was taken under repair and sent home. Steam power was drastically short in'the district, through rundown and general collapse and as the V2 passed by. Ainmouth found the temptation irresistible. Power was power and the V2 was seized, It stood in well for the KIs, regulars since the demise of J39s and other ghosts, and before complaint from Scotland reached the sort of pitch where it became impossible to cling on to 60836. it was put to even humbler K1 tasks - coal to Amble Harbour for ins tance. from collieries such as Shilbottle and Whittle. 60836 got back to Dundee to finally meet its end at the Motherwell Machinery and Scrap Co. in 1967

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Welcome to British Railways Illustrated Volume 2 No.S. Readers soon express unease when a particular favourite fails to surface for a few months, frequently fearing its demise. In this issue there is a long overdue return to the art deco Glasshouse signalboxes of the Southern Railway - reports of the series' demise being greatly exaggerated. The occasion prompts thoughts of extending the study of this type of building; its High Street survival as offices, shops and, of course, above all, as cinemas, now seems as threatened as its various railway manifestations. Only as the 1930s semi does art deco's survival seem secure. With good fortune we may be able to explore the spread of this curious architectural form across other, less familiar parts of British railways... Inspired, or at least prompted, by D.W. Winkworth's amusing piece way back in BRILL 1.6, Stephen Summerson offers his own odd experiences of the railway as backwater, under the heading Female Charm. John Aylard records a rare Stranger in the Night indeed, and Bulleid Pacifics star this issue in a variety of guises, in night and day, on the rails and off, and including this month's Fourum. Readers will doubtless be intrigued by the last Modelling Moment - this little occasional feature goes out if not in a blaze of glory, then a little flare of light. There is to be a railway modelling version of BRILL, to be called Modelling Railways Illustrated, due to emerge later in the year. Many of the details, predictions and hopes are outlined in Modelling Moment by Andy Farquarson, who will edit the new magazine... Watch this space. War Report is another feature extended beyond its normal length this time; the magazine relies upon regular slots and features and (the point has been made before) this is the 'squeeze box' principle in practice. Your comments on its operation are welcome; features shrink and grow to accommodate the breadth and depth of the subject and the general balance of the magazine. Diesel Dawn seems to be a popular feature, though in truth it is difficult to tell. For every letter praising it to the heavens (one in particular), another arrives castigating it and berating us for soiling our hands with the demon diesels. BRILL concentrates effectively on the post-war scene with a bit of harking back to earlier times, and our coverage is effectively ended with the demise of steam. Now the diesels of course occupied a very large slice of this period and due perhaps to some of the perversities of the original ordering of the modernisation scheme, many disappeared before the end of steam. It is sobering in the extreme - this is a point made at length in Diesel Dawn - that the Swindon Warships, regarded as amongst the most successful of the hydraulics, had all bit the dust within four years of August 1968. D801 VANGUARD was condemned even as the last few 8Fs clumped round and about Lancashire. Hitchin's Hundred is a bright newish way of looking at a subject and David Percival has woven together an attractive account of the life and times (since the war) of his local allocation - the hundred or so engines operating out of Hitchin shed in the 1950s. Even a wayside spot such as this, in those black and white days. could boast astonishing variety. Apart from the daily diet of Pacifies passing through, the Hitchin complement ran from wheezing GN 0-6-Os to modern Bis. peppered with oddities from the GE section and the London Midland. Station Survey this month is amongst the most lavish so far. a lot of design work which has our studio longing for the return of the country terminus. Next time perhaps. A comprehensive look, at least in the space available, at a great station - now ignominiously buried - sealed in concrete.
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