Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
OBSERVATIONS - 'Yesterday Once More' is the tide we've given to a selection of images that could so easily belong to the BR scene of the 'fifties and 'sixties but were all taken during the past twelve months. They range from a Bullied Pacific on the "Bournemouth Belle" to a Stanier 'Black 5' and Fowler 7f 2-8-0 on equally convincing freight workings
ON TRACK - How, through winter winds and rain, a Standard 4-6-0 brought steam back to Brighton and brought attention to the uncertain future of Brighton's ex-Barry residents
LOCOMOTIVE IN QUESTION: THE NOTABLE No9 - Third locomotive to get a 'grilling' in this new question-and-answer series is Gresley A4 Pacific No60009 Union of South Africa, star of Scottish main-line steam
TRAFFIC NOTICES - Four pages of news from the main line and pre- served railways this month, including details of two prestigious visitors to the East Lancashire Railway in the coming weeks
WATCHING BRIEF - This month's video reviews embrace a comprehensive portrait of today's Llangollen Railway and glorious glimpses of York in the 'sixties, with 'Deitics' sharing the stage with the Gresley Pacifics
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: 120 NOT OUT - Subject of this month's 'data-and-detail' feature is the oldest steam locomotive currently at work in Britain, the Tanfield Railway's Black Hawthorn 0-4-OST Wellington. Built in Newcastle in 187 and still at work on the other side of the Tyne in 1993.
STEAM PORTFOLIO: SHEPHERD'S DELIGHT - A look at the locomotive fleet of the East Somerset Railway, the line founded and still actively chaired by artist and conservationist, David Shepherd
FROM THE FOOTPLATE: FIRING ON THE FIFTEEN-INCH - Julian Womersley describes driving and firing Pacifics on the thirteen-and-a-half miles of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
THEY MADE HISTORY - THE MAVERICKS: CHURCHWARD'S STAR TURN - It was the biggest locomotive in Britain and, for fifteen years, the solitary example of the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, but what was the true value of No 111 The Great Bear to the Great Western Railway And, asks Martin Smith, was George Jackson Churchward really concerned what that value might be
RESTORATION UPDATE - Essex's 'Black 5' makes progress - a little helpful oil-defining - Worth Valley calls upon McEwen's boiler expertise - Cheddleton gets historic North Staffordshire survivor
REMEMBER WHEN - "Arthurs", "Nelsons", Moguls - recalling the locomotives of Richard Maunsell, at Bournemouth, Guildford, Reading, Weybrigde and on shed at Nine EIms
WRITE LINES - Holden's B12 remembered from New Zealand; Standard slips corrected; some classic suggestions
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity country-wide up to the end of March
ON TRACK - How, through winter winds and rain, a Standard 4-6-0 brought steam back to Brighton and brought attention to the uncertain future of Brighton's ex-Barry residents
LOCOMOTIVE IN QUESTION: THE NOTABLE No9 - Third locomotive to get a 'grilling' in this new question-and-answer series is Gresley A4 Pacific No60009 Union of South Africa, star of Scottish main-line steam
TRAFFIC NOTICES - Four pages of news from the main line and pre- served railways this month, including details of two prestigious visitors to the East Lancashire Railway in the coming weeks
WATCHING BRIEF - This month's video reviews embrace a comprehensive portrait of today's Llangollen Railway and glorious glimpses of York in the 'sixties, with 'Deitics' sharing the stage with the Gresley Pacifics
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: 120 NOT OUT - Subject of this month's 'data-and-detail' feature is the oldest steam locomotive currently at work in Britain, the Tanfield Railway's Black Hawthorn 0-4-OST Wellington. Built in Newcastle in 187 and still at work on the other side of the Tyne in 1993.
STEAM PORTFOLIO: SHEPHERD'S DELIGHT - A look at the locomotive fleet of the East Somerset Railway, the line founded and still actively chaired by artist and conservationist, David Shepherd
FROM THE FOOTPLATE: FIRING ON THE FIFTEEN-INCH - Julian Womersley describes driving and firing Pacifics on the thirteen-and-a-half miles of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
THEY MADE HISTORY - THE MAVERICKS: CHURCHWARD'S STAR TURN - It was the biggest locomotive in Britain and, for fifteen years, the solitary example of the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, but what was the true value of No 111 The Great Bear to the Great Western Railway And, asks Martin Smith, was George Jackson Churchward really concerned what that value might be
RESTORATION UPDATE - Essex's 'Black 5' makes progress - a little helpful oil-defining - Worth Valley calls upon McEwen's boiler expertise - Cheddleton gets historic North Staffordshire survivor
REMEMBER WHEN - "Arthurs", "Nelsons", Moguls - recalling the locomotives of Richard Maunsell, at Bournemouth, Guildford, Reading, Weybrigde and on shed at Nine EIms
WRITE LINES - Holden's B12 remembered from New Zealand; Standard slips corrected; some classic suggestions
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity country-wide up to the end of March
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