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Liverpool (Edge Hill) - Andrew Wilson provides a brief history of Liverpool (Edge Hill) motive power depot which, amongst other duties, provided locomotives for express trains to London and Manchester, and gives an insight into the variety of motive power that was based at the depot from the early days of railways to the shed's closure to steam.
North British Railway 'Y9 Pugs' in BR Days - David Anderson details the work carried out by the diminutive former NBR 0-4-OST 'Pugs' in Scotland from 1948 onwards, after the nationalisation of the railways.
STEAM DAYS in Colour a€ 4: Steam around Birmingham - In another in the new monthly series of 'All Colour' Photo Features from some of Britain's top exponents of colour photography in the railway fiek depicting a specific theme from those halcyon days of steam, Mike Mensing takes us to the Birmingham area this month with just a small sample of the many colour photographs he took in this area.
The Waveney Valley Line - Stanley Jenkins provides an illustrated history of a rural former Great Eastern Railway line in East Anglia which linked Tivetshall, just south of Norwich, with Beccles on the Yarmouth to Ipswich line, just west of Lowestoft.
Southern Ramblings - Keith Widdowson recalls rail journeys taken by him during the final years of steam-hauled trains in parts of Surrey, Sussex, and Kent in 1964 and 1965, and on later railtours.
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