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CLASSIC COMMENT - Now, "Steam Classic'"s Editor iroy/f/have saved 48173 but somehow never got round to it. Instead, he talks to those for whom dedication isn't getting your favourite track played on the radio
NEWS - Birmingham initiative ... Cornish cream... APRS award for the K4 ... and Port Line gets some magazine or other on the right track!
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - Four more outings for the Duchess-, West Highland dates; the year's main-line loco pools
OBSERVATIONS - Super-sub! The Great Marquess in Yorkshire ... Scotland hails No9 ... and terrific stuff at Tenterden
RESTORATION UPDATE - Verdict on Talyllyn veterans; and Cheddleton^s 4F is doing fine
THE GREAT DESIGNERS: OLIVER BULLEID - The most innovative locomotive engineer in British railway history. But were Bulleid's designs flawed — or merely floored?
BUILT AT CREWE - THE LOCOMOTIVE LEGACY - Everything from soap to steel — today they call it an 'in-house' solution — Crewe made it all, and 7,000-plus steam engines besides
THE PRIDE OF KINGS - We mark the main-line comeback of King Edward I with an appraisal of the Great Western's most powerful, and most prestigious class
STOCK CHECK: THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY - With its Spring Gala taking place in April, a timely check on the SVR's impressive stud: GW, Southern, LMS, LNER, BR — something for everyone!
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your guide to steam services on the preserved lines of England, Scotland and Wales for April and May
WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT? - Not quite Wayne and Tracy, but some ideas on naming railway locomotives have been just as banal. Who do we blame for Bongo, asks Jonathan Gregory?
BRINGING A BULLEID BACK TO LIFE - A day in the life of the Southern Pacific Rescue Group... and another day further in the rebirth of No.......34028 Eddystone
STEAM ON SHED: ASHES TO ... YET MORE ASHES - Dirty work afoot as S.M. Mills begins a series on life in those cathedrals of steam
PRESERVATION'S MEMORABLE MOMENTS - By broad gauge to the Albert Hall: relive the ultimate in Victorian values!
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THIS MONTH'S FRONT COVER ...shows a locomotive that qualifies fpr inclusion in two of this month's features: Stonier "Jubilee* No5690 Leander is both a resident Severn Valley engine, and was built at Crewe. Here, though, the crimson lake 4-6-0 is seen during its wanderings, emerging from the southerly portal of Grosmont tunnel on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway while on loan July 1983.
