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rains of Thought London Road a€ Manchester's Premier Station - Eddie Johnson provides a detailed history of Manchester (London Road) station and the adjoining Mayfield station, its traffic and motive in the days of steam on both the L&NWR/LMS side and the GCR/LNER side, and developments over the years into the days of 25kv ac electrification and the change of the station's name to Piccadilly. The Milk Train in South London - Alistair Nisbet recalls the milk trains that travelled to and from the Express Dairy's bottling plant at Morden South in South London from the plant's opening in 1954 until its closure in the early 1980s. The LMS '2P' 4-4-0s from 1928 to 1962 - Well-remembered for their work on former G&SWR lines in Scotland and on the Somerset & Dorset line, in addition to the Midlands and the North-West, this popular class of LMS locomotives is reviewed this month by W. A. T. Aves, who provides full details of modifications, their duties, and their allocations. End of Steam at King's Cross - Jeffery Grayer recalls the last months of scheduled Eastern Region steam workings on BR in and out of King's Cross, which ended in 1963. Desert Island Pics - A photo-feature with a difference! Marooned on a desert island with the nearest railway thousands of miles away, railway photographer Tony Brown shows us which of his eight railway pictures he would take with him. The Llanfyllin Branch - Stanley Jenkins relates the history and workings of a former Cambrian Railways branch line over which trains ran from Oswestry and on to Llanymynech, from where the rural branch line to Llanfyllin on the edge of the Berwyn Mountains of Mid-Wales commenced. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: This month we review the LMS '2P' 4.4.0s a€" the popular class of 136 locomotives, introduced in 1928, that worked not only in the Midlands and the north-west but also in Scotland and on the Somerset & Dorset Railway. On 27 May 1958 No 40644 a€" one of the Hurlford contingent, and the shed with the largest allocation of these engines in the late-1950s a€" is pictured in ex-Works condition in the shed yard at Perth. Eighteen months later the engine was withdrawn and scrapped at Cowlairs Works.
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