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Handsome is as handsome does! - The LNER 'D20' 4-4-0s - J. R. Walker
Special Traffic a€ The 'North Wales Land Cruises' - Another article in the series in which Michael Harris reviews the various flows of Special Traffic a€" freight and passenger a€" which were once the life-blood of the railway, and whose requirements taxed the resources of locomotives,coaches, wagons, men and facilities.
Running out of Steam! - The Last Days of Steam on BR (Part One) a€" WR, ER and ScR To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of steam on BR, Michael Welch looks back to those final days when steam locomotives were starting to look a little the worse for wear, and in the first part of this two-part article takes a look at the last year of steam on the Western, Eastern and Scottish Regions.
Simply the best...Euston to Crewe main line in LMS Days - Another small selection of the many excellent pictures held in the Rail Archive Stephenson Collection.
Footplate Days at Bournemouth - Highlights of an interview with ex-Bournemouth engineman Tom Upshall, transcribed and edited with additional notes from the original Oakwood Video Library soundtrack by Colin Stone.
Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters

Cover: Tom Upshall, our Southern Region footplateman featured this month in Steam Days, who operated from Bournemouth shed from 1950 to 1967, worked on the footplate of many engines during his footplate days, from the diminutive 'B4' 0-4-0Ts to the Bulleld Pacifics and 'Black Fives'. This month's front cover shows Bulleld 'Battle of Britain' Pacific No 34064 Fighter Command, complete with the oblong Giesi ejector with which it was fitted In May 1962, near Lymington Junction, Brockenhurst, on a down express on 27 July 1963. The matching green livery of engine and rolling stock create a fine sight as the train passes through Hampshire's New Forest.