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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Know Your Departmental - Perhaps the most confusing and least-understood of all British Rail numbering systems is that of its vast array of departmental stock. At last, we've tracked down an expert who can put the picture straight in Roger Butcher.
I'm the Gatwick Express - Fly me! - At long last, the loco-powered, air-conditioned, new-liveried Victona-GatwicK push-pull service is about to run. Geoffrey Freeman Alien was among the guests on a special press preview of this prestige Southern Region service.
Railways In the Soviet Union - Peter Kelly manages to penetrate the Iron Curtain and take a brief glimpse at the massive SZD rail network of the USSR - a country where a 2,000-mile-long new rail route is being built along with a branch line of 700 miles!
Isle of Wight revisited - David Maxey joins a birthday celebration in the Isle of Wight, where London Transport Underground veteran stock is celebrating 60 years of service.
Preservation pioneers - Those "elder statesmen" of modern traction preservation, the Diesel and Electric Group, are alive and well in the West Country. Howard Johnston visits them and brings us up-to-date on their latest achievements.
Outlines of Power: Class 37 - The English Electric Class 37 diesel-electric Co-Co is among the most versatile and long-lived Of British Rail diese! classes - and is the subject of Mike Turner's centre-spread painting this month
The Incredible Hulk - By good chance, a Rail Enthusiast contributor managed to get some superb colour slides at Peterborough of Paddington crash victim 50041 Bulwark, en route to Doncaster for appraisal and (hopefully) a full repair.
What's in a Name - In the third part of his intnguing series about locomotive names, David Maxey delves through the reference library shelves to find out the MEANING of so many of the well-known nameplates we know today.
Also:
News lines.
All Change
Looking Ahead
Rail mail
I'm the Gatwick Express - Fly me! - At long last, the loco-powered, air-conditioned, new-liveried Victona-GatwicK push-pull service is about to run. Geoffrey Freeman Alien was among the guests on a special press preview of this prestige Southern Region service.
Railways In the Soviet Union - Peter Kelly manages to penetrate the Iron Curtain and take a brief glimpse at the massive SZD rail network of the USSR - a country where a 2,000-mile-long new rail route is being built along with a branch line of 700 miles!
Isle of Wight revisited - David Maxey joins a birthday celebration in the Isle of Wight, where London Transport Underground veteran stock is celebrating 60 years of service.
Preservation pioneers - Those "elder statesmen" of modern traction preservation, the Diesel and Electric Group, are alive and well in the West Country. Howard Johnston visits them and brings us up-to-date on their latest achievements.
Outlines of Power: Class 37 - The English Electric Class 37 diesel-electric Co-Co is among the most versatile and long-lived Of British Rail diese! classes - and is the subject of Mike Turner's centre-spread painting this month
The Incredible Hulk - By good chance, a Rail Enthusiast contributor managed to get some superb colour slides at Peterborough of Paddington crash victim 50041 Bulwark, en route to Doncaster for appraisal and (hopefully) a full repair.
What's in a Name - In the third part of his intnguing series about locomotive names, David Maxey delves through the reference library shelves to find out the MEANING of so many of the well-known nameplates we know today.
Also:
News lines.
All Change
Looking Ahead
Rail mail
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