rains of Thought
Bugle's Railways Remembered - John Vaughan provides a brief history of the railways and china clay industry around Bugle, in Cornwall, and relates stories from Herbert Austen May, now aged 93, who started work as a lad-porter on the railway at Bugle in 1920, and continued on the railway in the area until retirement in 1969.
Locomotive Names and their Origins - The BR Standard 4-6-0 'King Arthurs' Following the 'Who's Who' theme of his 'Ladies of Legend' article which appeared in the August 1993 issue of Steam Days, Basil Cooper describes the origin of the names which were carried by the BR Class '5' 4-6-0 'King Arthurs'.
High Days at Burton-upon-Trent - Mike Thompson describes the scene at Bur-ton in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
The Banff Branch - Keith Jones and Bill Rear provide a brief history of this Great North of Scotland branch line which, at Tillynaught, left the GNSR's Aberdeen to Elgin route.
Lineside Lens a€ Newcastle to Carlisle - Compiled by John Booth
LMS 'Jubilees' a€" Comet and Pheonix - Michael Harris profiles the two LMS 'Jubilees' that were rebuilt during World War II.
Tail Lamp and Reviews
Cover: Under Southampton Central's famed signal gantry, which was claimed for preservation by the National Railway Museum, BR Standard Class '5' 4-6-0 No 73111 King Uther sets out with a down Bournemouth express on 12 September 1964. The named Class '5s' feature In an article in this issue in which, regarding King Arther and the Arthurian legend, our contributor comments, 'he started it all.'