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Trains of Thought Carlisle: The Border City in the days of steam - David P. Williams recalls visits to Carlisle between 1959 and 1962, when as a Teesside schoolboy it was a magnet in his quest to see and photograph 'Princess Royals' and 'Princess Coronations' at work, as well as enjoy those rare encounters where East Coast and West Coast Pacifies were side by side. Grangemouth Docks - Rails to the River - The story of how the Caledonian Railway extended east to the River Forth is revealed by Jim Summers as he describes the fascinating development of the docks at Grangemouth, from its origins at the eastern end of the Forth & Clyde Canal through to the massive expansion by the Caledonian, Railway and its subsequent railway operations. STEAM DAYS In Colour 60: Southern Region Boat Trains - With its main line connections to the English Channel ports in southern England, the Southern Region was famed for the variety of its boat trains. Enjoy a selection of these through the camera work of some of the finest photographers of the steam era. The Pembroke Dock Branch - Stanley Jenkins explores the history of the Whitland to Pembroke Dock line from the days of the isolated Pembroke & Tenby Railway through to the end of BR steam in south-west Wales, and beyond. Britain's Titled Trains 36: The White Rose' - One of a long line of expresses that ran between King's Cross and the West Riding cities of Leeds and Bradford, 'The White Rose', as Roger Haigh explains, was one of British Railways' slower titled trains. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters Cover: The doyen of the Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' class Pacifies, No 35001 Channel Packet, works an up boat train through Shorncliffe station in May 1959. There was always a certain symmetry about Channel Packet working boat trains to and from the English Channel ports, but it would not last much longer. Having entered traffic on 5 June 1941, from Salisbury shed, this locomotive had been transferred from the Western Division depot at Exmouth Junction to the Eastern Division at Stewarts Lane in January 1957. Within days of this photograph being taken No 35001 entered Eastleigh Works, on 27 May, for rebuilding, and emerged in its new form on 8 August 1959. After being rebuilt, Channel Packet returned to the Western Division, first at Nine Elms and then Bournemouth, from where it was withdrawn in November 1964.
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Despite being some 286% miles from Paddington, Pembroke Dock was, until the end of the summer of 1965, embraced within the GWR/WR timetables as a regular long-distance destination, rather than just the terminus of the 27% mile long branch to Whitland, and as such it boasted numerous through workings linking with Swansea and Paddington. At the western extremity of the journey tank engines often hauled these heavy duties. At Penally, the station prior to Tenby for up trains, a Paddington-bound service is pictured in August 1959 with 2-6-2T No 8103 providing the power.
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