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CLASSIC COMMENT - Mixing with the royals, as a "Princess" takes Derbyshire in style and the Duke of Gloucester (the older one!) makes tracks in Kent
NEWS - Didcot Prairie visits the other GWR — five in steam at South Tynedale gala — put your spoke in for KES
OBSERVATIONS - Princess Margaret Rose in main-line action — Watercress Line on a war footing! — 'Terrier'- and Wainwright P cut the ribbon at Northiam
WRITE LINES - Your chance to let off steam (especially about that pathetic attempt at a pun)
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - Your update on the main-line steam scene, with forthcoming dates and routes
SWINDON PUTS ON A SHOW - Taking a look at some of the NRM's notable 'refugees'
A WAVERLEY SAGA - BEHIND STEAM - Recalling a 'fifties steam pilgrimage to Scotland: A2s, D34 "Glens", A3s and — whoops! — D208
LOOKING IN AT LEIGHTON BUZZARD - Meet some of the star performers on the narrow gauge circuit
STEAM PORTFOLIO: THE PULL OF A SIX-COUPLED TANK - Recognition at last for those humble servants of over 100 years' service
STOCK CHECK: THE MIDLAND RAILWAY CENTRE - Now with a five-strong main-line stud, and preservation's largest museum, time for a look in at Butterley
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam services duringjuly and August
A BOOK FOR THE JOURNEY - The Lickey Incline, Bricklayer's Arms, the Great Central and Terence Cuneo — all in 'Steam Classic's new books page
PRESERVATION'S MEMORABLE MOMENTS - Day return to 'Metroland' — the most unlikely main-line outing of them all
RESTORATION UPDATE - A 'Dub-Dee' in steam by 1995? — 8233 still trying for that main-line ticket — sponsor a tube to get Scots GuariJsman back in steam
THE GREAT DESIGNERS: WILLIAM STROUDLEY - When form was allied to function rather than its servant, William Stroudley designed some of the most elegant of British locomotives: the true 'Brighton peer'
THIS MONTH'S FRONT COVER:
Very few tank locomotive designs have attained the adulation accorded the 'heavyweights' of steam, but Stroudley's 'Terriers' were — and still are — definitely one of them. This truly is a shunting engine with style and, of course, their exploits have become part of railway folklore. A host of 'Terriers' are still giving good service in preservation, some having attained the venerable age of 118! They are concentrated in the south, principally on the Bluebell, Isle of Wight and Kent and East Sussex Railways, part of whose stock is No.10 Button (though actually the property of the Borough of Sutton and Cheam). NolO has enjoyed two other appellations in its time, which included a spell on the Isle of Wight as W9 Fishbourne. Prior to that, it had been No50 Whitechapel. Here, Sutton is seen on the demonstration track at Tyseley in what were happier times for the Birmingham Railway Museum, just ten months ago. More on that story in our news pages; the story of Stroudley and his 'Terriers' is told in this month's 'Great Designers'.
