R Steam at Darlington (Bank Top) - Darlington has over the years lost its pre-eminence, and Colin Ryder takes a detailed look at the Darlington of the BR era from 1948 until the end of steam in the area in the 1960s. 'Black Fives' and '8Fs' - Tony Brown, with another of his creative photo-features showing his artistic photographic approach, takes a look at those final days of steam in the north at the end of the steam era when many of the ubiquitous Stanier 'Black Fives' and '8F' 2-8-0s held out to ftie butter end. STEAM DAYS in Colour 29: Perthshire Steam - Perthshire in Scotland is blessed with some of the country's most magnificent scenery, and in this month's aft-colour photo-feature we highlight some of the workings during the final years of Scottish Region steam. Chislehurst and Bickley Junction - G. W. L. Brooksbank reveals, in rnost-mteresting detailed tables, the workings of the London to Kent trains which passed through the busy area of Chislehurst and Biddey in the 1940s and 1950s, with full details of the locomotives used on these trains. Didcot Engine Shed - To celebrate 75 years since the present engine shed at Didcot was constructed, and also 40 years of the Great Western Society occupying the premises, Andrew Wilson looks at the history of the GWR's locomotive depot at Didcot. Tail Lamp a€ Readers' Letters Cover: This month our all-colour photo-feature takes us to Perthshire in Scotland and during the Stephenson Locomotive Society's 'Easter Rambler"" railtour. on 23 April 1962 we see former Caledonian Railway 4-4-0 No 54465 running round its train at the Blairgowrie branch terminus.