Trains of Thought
Remembering Tyneside Steam - J, R, Walker recalls the last days of steam-hauled freight trains in the north-east when its was often a case of 'hop aboard1 for a footplate ride.
Through the Tunnel from Treherbert - Memories of the Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway - Bernard Lazarus
The 'B12' 4-6-0s on the Great North - I.C. Coleford recalls these Great Eastern 4-6-Os which worked throughout Aberdeenshire and over the GNoSR rout*
Focus on 4-4-0s - Phil Lynch
Britain's Titled Trains - 3: The 'Irish Mail' - Ray Vickers
Steam Days at Folkestone - 0, J. Barter takes an in-depth look at this fascinating SE&CR coastal town and its interesting workings.
Tail Lamp

Cover: In this issue of Steam Days we take a look at the popular 4-4-0 locomotives which graced not only Britain's railways but those of Eire and the Continent. In this scene, captured at Shepherds Well on 23 May 1959, we see ex-SE&CR 'L* class 4-4-0 No 31768 with a Faversham to Dover train, one of the very last survivors of the class, being withdrawn in December 1961.: