Trains of Thought
Medway Miscellany - Richard Saywell Green recalls the 1950s in the Medway towns of Kent, and the variety of motive power that could be seen.
Steam Days at Cambridge - Stanford Jacobs
Lineside Lens - Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway - Compiled by Michael Harris
A Visit to Inverurie Works - Baan Morrison remembers a visit to this ex-GNoSR Locomotive Works in 1957, and provides illustrations.
The Eight-Coupled Tank Engines of the London & North Western Railway - W. A. T. Aves
The 89C Engine Sheds of the Cambrian Coast - Andrew Wilson provides a brief history of Machynlleth, Aberystwyth, Portmadoc, Pwllheli and Penmaenpool sheds from their early days to the end of steam.
Tail Lamp and Reviews
Cover: In this Issue of Steam Days we look at the variety of motive power which passed through the Medway towns of Kent in the 1950s. Our cover picture shows 'Dl' 4-4-0 No 31509 leaving Faversham for Dover, with red & cream coaching stock, on a fine frosty morning in January 1958, and providing plenty of steam.