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Trains of Thought North-East Adventure - A West Country teenager's first visit to the north-east in April 1964, Steve Bartlett recalls discovering the railways of this rich industrial heartland as he made for the steam sheds at Percy Main, South BIyth, and Sunderland. Locomotives that got away - Express Passenger Classes - Philip Atkins ponders the express locomotives that deserved to be preserved and yet missed out first time around, but in some cases may return. STEAM DAYS in Colour 82: Steam Variety at Cardiff. - In steam days the railways of Cardiff were always worth visiting as the variety" of ex-Great Western motive power was almost certainly only rivalled by Paddington. Enjoy a selection of images of Cardiff's steam swansong. The Westerham Valley Railway - Fifty years after the closure of the 4% mile branch line from Dunton Green to Westerham, Stanley Jenkins looks at the line's 80-year history, while Don Benn recalls the emotive last day of service, 28 October 1961. Britain's Titled Trains 40: The Corridor" and 'Mid-day Scot' - Part One 1893-1934 - Unofficially known by raitwaymen as 'The Corridor' for over thirty years, Roger Haigh describes the Irfe and times of this heavy Anglo-Scottish West Coast main line service from its pre-Grouping operation through to its official branding upon the deployment of the 'Royal Scots'. Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters Cover: In this month's Steam Days Philip Atkins looks at the locomotive classes that escaped preservation but were worthy of keeping, recognising the schemes presently filling some of these historic gaps. One of the classes that the Great Western Society is recreating is the Hawksworth 'County' class 4-6-0, and at Didcot No 1014 County of Glamorgan will soon have a rolling chassis and flat-sided tender. For our cover picture, to remind us what imposing 4-6-0s they were, we see No 1005 County of Devon in ex-Works condition on Plymouth's Laira shed on 25 September 1960.
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