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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Trains of Thought A Summer Saturday at Paddington - Alan Teatherton takes us back 52 years to a typical early summer Saturday in July 1957 at the Western Region's iconic London terminus. Nottingham - Great Central - Wallace Hill describes how the OCR and its successors challenged the Midland Railway and LMS for Nottingham's lucrative goods and passenger traffic, and interacted with the Great Northern routes in the city. STEAM DAYS in Colour 59: The Scottish Industrial Scene - Part Two - Industrial steam in Scotland out-lasted that on the main lines by a considerable number of years, and in our second round up of photographs into this often overlooked era we turn the spotlight on the everyday duties of the hard-working tank engines at collieries, a foundry, and at aluminium and gas works. Four-Coupled to East Grinstead - Jeffery Grayer recalls the last months of regular steam hauled push-pull services on the Three Bridges - East Grinstead - Tunbridge Wells route during 1963 when they were operated by a handful of Drummond 'M7' and Wainwright 'H' Class 0-4-4Ts. Gloucester and Cheltenham Revisited - Steve Bartlett takes us back to the 1960-63 period at Gloucester and. Cheltenham where the former Great Western and Midland railways once came together, their routes carrying an ever changing mix of passenger, parcels, and freight trains, even during the transition from steam. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters Cover: Wainwright designed ex-SE&CR 'H' class 0-4-4T No 31551 heads a two coach motor-fitted train along the Three Bridges to East Grinstead line near Worth, between Three Bridges and Grange Road, in June 1963. The 'H' class shared the working of these trains with a handful of ex-L&SWR Drummond designed 'M7' class 0-4-4TS and as such these became a magnet for enthusiasts searching out some of the last push-pull trains operated by the Southern Region. Inside this month's STEAM DAYS Jeffery Grayer takes an in depth look at the last years of these workings.
Article Snippets
This month's Colour Feature takes a second look at the Scottish industrial scene and here, as a taster, we find Burntisland's two British Aluminium Company-owned Peckett 0-4-OSTs, Nos 1 and 2, at work at the Burntisland plant on the banks of the Firth of Forth. These engines were used on site, British Railways locomotives delivering or receiving trains to and from this location. This September 1971 scene depicts one of the Peckett built locomotives manoeuvering a train of 16 ton mineral wagons that will have brought in coal. Meanwhile, in the background, the sister engine shunts a train of Covhop and Prestflo wagons which were used to transport the smelter-grade aluminium oxide to Ballachulish, for Kinlochleven, and the Lochaber site at Fort William.
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