rains of Thought Norwich a€ GER, LNER, and BR(ER) - Stanley Jenkins provides a brief history of the involvement of the Great Eastern Railway and its predecessors at Norwich, continuing on into LNER and BR (Eastern Region) days. Lineside Lens a€" Yeovil (Pen Mill) to Weymouth - Compiled by Peter Q. Treloar Saved from the Cutter's Torch - With August 2003 being the 35th Anniversary of the end of steam-hauled trains on British Railways, Rex Kennedy takes a photographic look at some of those steam engines, both in their running days and today, that escaped the humiliation of ending up as just piles of metal, and that still give us pleasure at steam centres and occasionally on the main line. Mogul Minority - Jeffery Grayer remembers the Southern 'N1' class 2-6-0s which constituted the smallest sub-group of just six examples in the Southern Railway's extensive Maunsell Mogul fleet. The Tayport Branch a€" A Scottish Steam Suburban Service - Alistair Nisbet takes us over the short former North British Railway branch from Dundee to Tayport which crossed the famous Tay Bridge and then followed the south bank of the Tay Estuary. Cross-threaded or the wrong plug! a€" Life and conditions in a steam shed - S. G. Allsopp, who spent much of his railway career maintaining steam locomotives at Derby, describes the poor conditions that the workforce at the engine sheds had to endure, and the often antiquated tools that they had to work with to keep steam locomotives in safe running order. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: This month we take a trip down the former GWR line from Yeovil (Pen Mill) to Weymouth. where at Dorchester it was joined by the South Western line from Bournemouth. Leaving Yeovil (Pen Mill) on 13 June 1958 with a train for Weymouth we see Bristol (Bath Road)-based No 7015 Cam Brea Castle and the station nameboard which tells passengers to change here for Taunton and Exeter.
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