Trains of Thought The BR 'Clan' Pacifics With a reputation as underachievers, Andrew Wilson reveals the story of this class and reassesses the BR Standard '6MT' 4-6-2s some sixty years after the tenth and final engine emerged for service from Crewe Works. Oxford to Cambridge by train Part One: Oxford to Bletchley Inspired by the Bicester to Bletchley section of this route being given the go-ahead to re-open to passengers after a break of around 45 years, Bill Simpson provides a historic backdrop in the form of a journey between the two university cities over the so-called 'Varsity Line'. Steam Days in Colour 87: Southern 4-4-0s at Work Our spotlight falls on the Southern Region's inherited fleet of passenger 4-4-0s, ranging from the pre-Grouping designs of Drummond, Wainwright and Maunsell to the latter's Southern Railway masterpeices. Steam Days at Cromer Boasting termini on the Great Eastern Railway and M&GN networks, as well as a joint railway linking the two, Stanley Jenkins explains how Cromer, the 'Gem of the Norfolk Coast', benefited from the coming of the railway. Locomotives of the Great Western Railway's Absorded Companies 1: the Taff Vale Railway Peter Q. Treloar takes a look at some of the fasinating locomotives that graced the Taff Vale Railway of South Wales, the existing engines of which were brought into Great Western Railway stock in 1922. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
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