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nniversary Competition, with major valuable prizes! Trains of Thought Simply the Best! The LMS 'Royal Scots' - 1927 to 1966 - Another small selection of photographs from the many excellent pictures held in the Rail Archive Stephenson Collection. Irish Idyll - Phil Lynch recalls a trip over the sea to Ireland over forty years ago to witness both standard-gauge and narrow-gauge steam there, capturing some of those sights on film. The Great Western at Plymouth - Stanley Jenkins, in the first of two articles on this major rail centre in the West Country, provides a history of the Great Western Railway's involvement there from broad-gauge days until the end of steam, detailing the changes to the station, motive power, and the passenger and freight services operating to and from Plymouth. End of Term for the Southern 'Schools' class 4-4-Os - Jeffery Grayer recalls the last years of Maunsells' famous 'V class 'Schools' 4-4-Os whose story was to end so abruptly with the wholesale culling of the final members of the class in December 1962. Freight across the Fens - Gerald Siviour studies not only the vast amount of freight traffic that converged on Whitemoor freight yards at March in Cambridgeshire in the days of steam, and the motive power used, but also the local and cross-country passenger traffic that had be incorporated into these freight movements across the Fens. The 'Scott' Connection - In the month which celebrates ten years of publishing STEAM DAYS magazine by Redgauntlet Publications, the company being named after a Sir Walter Scott novel and a name used by various railway companies on their engines, W. A. T. Aves provides a study of the NBR's Reid 'Scott' class 'D29' and 'D30' 4-4-Os, and also recalls other locomotives which carried the names of Sir Walter Scott novels and characters. Tail Lamp a€ Readers' Letters Cover: This month you have the opportunity to win the original George Heiron painting which appears on the front cover of this magazine, by entering our fabulous competition to celebrate ten years of publishing STEAM DAYS magazine by Redgauntlet Publications. The painting shows a North Stafford 4-4-0 leaving Stoke-on-Trent with a Manchester train.
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