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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
rains of Thought Farewell to Steam over Shap - Steve Bartlett recalls the summer of 1967 over Shap when despite the ' end of steam being barely a year away it was still well in evidence on freight and Summer Saturday passenger services. The LNER 'H17'A8' tank engines - Chris Andrews reviews a former North Eastern Railway 4-4-4T class of locomotive that was converted to a 4-6-2T wheel arrangement by the LNER in the 1930s and re-classified 'A8'. STEAM DAYS in Colour 18: The Last Decade of Scottish Steam - This month's 'All-Colour' photo-feature takes a look at Scotland in the 1960s through the cameras of some of Britain's top prolific and talented railway photographers in the days of steam-hauled trains. Steam Days at Oswestry - Stanley Jenkins takes a detailed look at the railway network that once served the prosperous Shropshire town of Oswestry, which was the headquarters of the Cambrian Railways and later the hub of the Central Wales Division. The Southern at Exeter in the 1940s - Roger Venning recalls his early spotting days in and around Exeter and the Southern steam scene at this important Devonshire rail centre between 1944 and 1949. Tail Lamp a€ Readers' Letters Cover: In this month's issue we take a look back at the last steam bankers allocated toTebay shed for assisting heavy passenger and freight trains up the 1 in 75 gradient to Shap summit. Here we see one of them, Riddles Standard '4MT 4-6-0 No 75037, working hard at the rear of a freight as it passes the summit in October 1967.
Article Snippets
Steam working over Shap went out with a flourish in December 1967. One of the highlights of the last days was the use of BR 'Britannia' Pacific No 70013 Oliver Cromwell on a return Carlisle to Blackpool football special on Boxing Day 1967. Photographed in this issue north of Penrith at Great Strickland, No 70013 is being worked very hard, much to the delight of the photographer and the crew whose last run with steam this might have been.
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