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rains of Thought Forget the 'Duck Six', there's a peg on the main! - Recollections from Rob New/man of many hours spent in the late 1950s and early 1960s at King's Norton station, in the suburbs of Birmingham. Lineside Lens a€ London to Brighton - Compiled by John Booth The Ayrshire Coalfield in the 1950s and 1960s - David Cross recalls those days when his father, the late Derek Cross, took him along as a young lad when spending hours photographing the workings to and from the collieries in South-West Scotland. Men at Work! - In an article which has a 'topical' theme, Michael Harris reviews just what was involved in maintaining the railway during the steam age. The Kerry Goods ... and the conveyance of freight and livestock over this Mid-Wales Branch - Rex Kennedy takes a look at the freight workings over this short Cambrian Railways branch line to Kerry from Abermule, revealing information from official documentation. Bradford's Engine Sheds - Andrew Wilson provides a potted history of the engine sheds at Bradford where in pre-Grouping days the L&YR, the Great Northern, and the Midland Railway all had motive power depots. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: This month in Steam Days magazine we take a look at Bradford's engine sheds in the days of steam. Just six weeks prior to Manningham shed's closure to steam this scene was photographed there, on 11 March 1967, as two of the shed's long-time residents, Fairburn 2-&4TS Nos 42093 and 42072, were being serviced on shed. A Kingmoor 'Britannia' Pacific, No 70027 (now devoid of its Rising Star nameplate), is also seen on shed in this atmospheric shed scene.
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