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Trains of Thought Britain's Titled Trains 39: 'The Cambridge Buffet Car Express' - Introduced in 1932 to tap the pockets and quench the thirst of undergraduates. Roger Haigh examines the running of the Buffet Car Expresses, or Beer Trains, between King's Cross and Cambridge in LNER and BR (Eastern Region) days. The Taunton to Yeovil Line - Born as a Bristol & Exeter Railway broad gauge branch from Durston to Yeovil, and in part swallowed up by the 1906 'new main line' from Taunton towards London, Stanley Jenkins describes the life and times of a secondary route that ran from the heart of Great Western Somerset into GWR/L&SWR Joint territory. STEAM DAYS in Colour 78: Stanier's Impressive Rebuilt 'Royal Scots' - A colour interlude of the last years of the rebuilt 'Royal Scots', regarded by many as one of the finest 4-6-0 classes used on any British railway. Such was their potency that they were put to work on trains that other regions booked to Pacific locomotives. Glasgow (Eastfield) shed and its locomotives - The rise and fall of the North British Railway's principal engine shed, sited near the top of the 1 in 45 gradient from Glasgow (Queen Street) station on the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway main line in the 'railway town' that was Springburn. The Urie and Maunsell 'H15' Class 4-6-Os (1914-1961) - Robert Urie's 'H15s' were arguably the precursors of the classic British mixed traffic outside valve gear 4-6-0. Andrew Wilson follows the fleet of twenty new-build L&SWR and SR engines, as well as studying the six 'renewals' of Drummond parentage. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters Cover: This month we feature the rebuilt 'Royal Scot' class 4-6-Os in our alt-colour feature, and as a taster No 46111 Royal Fusilier is depicted preparing to depart from Nuneaton with an Up train on 16 July 1963. These handsome, powerful looking locomotives, with their large boilers and fireboxes, were impressive performers that belled their BR power classification of '7P'. Champions of London Midland Region top link passenger work until superseded by the English Electric 'Type 4' Co-Co diesel-electrics, sadly the 'Royal Scots' would increasingly appear In filthy external condition and they had a tendency to become rough riding as the mileage accumulated.
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