On every Region, not just the LMR, there were places that were, in an operating sense if not literally, a million miles from the 'glamour' of the Top Links at Camden, Crewe North and all the others. This host of second rank sheds was, however, just as vital to the railway and its proper functioning. The lot of the average fireman or driver at such sheds (to whom the notion of 'mileage bonus' must have seemed a shimmering, mirage-like impossibility) was usually eight hours on a shunting or trip engine spent in sidings or colliery yards. Track in general faithfully followed the contours as dictated by the surrounding subsidence and the wind and rain always blew in through the back of some open Victorian cab. This, together with the unforgiving business of coal, sand, soda ash, dolomite and salt was the very stuff of:
SUTTON OAK-SERVING ST HELENS ('From Shed to Supermarket') - PART ONE - By Bryan Wilson and Ernie Rimmer

EARLY BULLEIDS ON THE ILFRACOMBE LINE - Oh! to have been on that August 1946 English seaside holiday, the first full summer after the War.

ON SHED AT SHREWSBURY: 2 - More atmospheric views of Shrewsbury.

LOCAL HERO - By Paul Anderson - The J6 recalled as mixed traffic maid of all work.

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT - Part Two

WAYSIDE WOODFORD, 1 AUGUST 1961 - Notes by Richard Hardy

SUBURBAN ESSEX MISCELLANY - Some Notes by Bryan Wilson

Riley's Railway Roundabout - Rainy Day in Cambridgeshire, 26 April 1958

DIESEL DAWN - A Couple of Oddities - Two curious leftovers from the dawn of diesels.

THIRTIES FILE - Lizzies on the Loose

WAR REPORT       

Fourum - Town and Country     

A READER WRITES   

SPOT THE SHED