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Trains of Thought The Streamlined Pacifics of the LMS - With interest in the streamlined 'Princess Coronation' class Pacifies rekindled by the reappearance of 'Duchess of Hamilton' as a red streamliner, Andrew Wilson looks at the careers of these iconic locomotives. The Barton & New Holland Railway - Part of the National railway network since 1849, and so nearly on a through route from Scunthorpe to Immingham, the activities and evolution of the y/2 mile long branch line from Barton-on-Humber to the once important station and pier at New Holland are scrutinized by A.J. Ludlum. STEAM DAYS in Colour: 61: The Callander & Oban line - Part One - Caltander to Crianlarich, and the Killin Branch - When the Beeching axe fell on the C&O route east of Crianlarich, in 1965, Scotland lost a main line through an area of outstanding beauty, and with it too went the steam oasis that was the Killin branch. We return to an era when THE way to travel through the land of Rob Roy McGregor was still by train. Bristol - Great Western/Western Region Lines On the 175th anniversary of the incorporation of the GWR, Stanley Jenkins returns to Bristol to describe the Great Western Railway's rise to prominence in the city. Secondary Schools - Jeffery Grayer recalls the brief sojourn for the 'Schools' class engines displaced from top link duties by the Kent Coast Electrification scheme, but which found new work on the secondary route between Reading, Guildford, Redhill and Tonbridge from 1960 until 1962. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters Book Reviews and Reader Offers
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