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rains of Thought Derby Works in LMS and BR Days - In Part Two of his survey of the locomotives built at Derby Works, Roger Haigh moves on to the LMS and BR eras when the supremacy of steam was eventually usurped by the diesel locomotive. Steam Days at Ely - Stanley Jenkins unravels the history of the railways that served the Fenland city of Ely from 1847 to the present day. STEAM DAYS in Colour - 38: Basingstoke, Worting Junction, and Battledown Worting Junction, near Basingstoke, where the Salisbury and Southampton lines converge, together with the Battledown Flyover where up trains from Southampton passed over the Salisbury line, is the subject of our all-colour photo-feature this month, in addition to views of Basingstoke, its station, and its engine shed. Railways around Swansea - Roger Malyn describes the development of the many railways that served the Swansea district from the 1800s until the last days of steam in the area, their running sheds and their passenger and freight workings, together with the dock complex at Swansea and the Mumbles Railway. Edinburgh (Haymarket) Shed in the 1950s - The origins of Edinburgh's Haymarket locomotive depot lay with the North British Railway and in 1923 it was assimilated by the LNER. David Anderson looks at the shed's swansong in the 1950s. Tail Lamp a€ Readers' Letters Cover: Framed on 9 September 1962 by the signal gantry at the east end of Basingstoke station (an area featured in colour in this month's magazine), Nine Elms-based 'Merchant Navy' Pacific No 35014 Nederland Line blows off steam as it waits at the station platform prior to leaving for London with a Plymouth to Waterloo express.
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