Trains of Thought Cowlairs and its Locomotives Britain's first Works to build locomotives, carriages and wagons in the same place, the main North British Railway Works was the training ground of many future Locomotives Superintendents, as Graham MacKenzie explains. Locomotives that got away Goods, Mixed Traffic and Tank Engines...and the New Era of New-Build Philip Atkins concludes his appraisal of locomotives that have been saved, and those that slipped away but in hindsight warranted preservation. Andrew Wilson then picks up the story of the preservationists who are presently bringing back their own favourite 'lost locomotives'. Steam Days in Colour 90: steam around Tyneside With its coal and steel industries, Tyneside was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and was the crucible that developed the steam locomotive, with British Railways steam in the area continuing well into 1967. Related through Ironstone The Quarry Railway of Byfield and Charwelton Created to serve Britain's iron ore needs during World War I, at their peak just a field or two separated two rival ironstone railways, but operationally a 1941 Government move saw them united under the Staveley Coal & Iron Co Ltd, Rex Partidge taking this story through to final closure, and beyond. Passing the time at Bradley Lane Mike Page rcalls activity on the line that cultivated his railway interest, detailing the later decades of steam operation on a section of the former GWR main line between Wolverhampton (Low Level) and Birmingham (Snow Hill) Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters