Trains of thought
The life and times of Gresley ‘B17’ Bradford City - One of the iconic ‘Footballers’, Bradford City, proved to be the last ‘Bl 7’ in traffic, but as Andrew Wilson relates, the lightweight 4-6-0s had a difficult gestation
Landore shed: A 60 year retrospective - Completed by the GWR in 1874 and best known for its top link passenger locomotives, Alan Williams looks back at the engine shed at the heart of Swansea’s main line activities through to its closure on I I June 1961.
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Southern freight - Bodmin & Wadebridge duties - The Beattie ‘Well Tanks’ proved the perfect fit for the specific needs of the lightly-laid and sharply-curved Wenford Bridge mineral branch of the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway - we look at their duties in BR days.
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Blackpool’s summer weekday traffic - Boasting two termini, Swedebasher considers high season Monday to Friday railway operations into, and out of, this Fylde seaside resort in the days before widespread dieselisation.
The local lines of Strathkelvin and Strathblane: An NBR perspective - In the hinterland of the Edinburgh & Glasgow main line, John Macnab offers an overview of the railways that reached Kilsyth, the Kelvin Valley Railway and Kilsyth & Bonnybridge Railway, and their Blane Valley Railway neighbour.
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Contents page photo - After working into Blackpool (Central), Accrington-based Stanier ‘4MT’ 2-6-4T No 42619 rests on the nearby shed in March 1959. 
Cover: In June I960 ex-L&SWR Beattie ‘0298’ class 2-4-0WT No 30586 is seen mid-shunt at Wadebridge while removing a van from the rear of a passenger train, the 9.02am arrival from Bodmin. Built in 1875 and intended for suburban passenger work, No 30586 was one of the last trio of these ‘Well Tanks’ used in the Wadebridge area, the class first operating here in 1893.