Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
rains of Thought Life before Preservation 28: Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway - David Stirling provides a potted history of a Scottish West Lothian branch line from Manuel on the NBR's Edinburgh to Glasgow line to Bo'ness and Bridgeness on the Firth of Forth, part of which is now part of the preservation scene, with full details of the traffic carried and the motive power seen over the line in the days of steam. Stalwarts of the Tilbury Line a€ 1935 to 1962 - The Stanier 3-cylinder 2-6-4TS a€" LMS Nos 2500-36 - W. A. T. Aves reviews these 3-cylinder Stanier tanks which were very much a part of the London, Tilbury & Southend scene for the majority of their lives, and details their duties elsewhere on the LMS and in Scotland. High Days at Aynho Junction a€" Saturday, 7 July 1962 - In another interesting article featuring a particular day at a station or by the lineside in the days of steam, Mike Thompson recalls a Summer Saturday at Aynho Junction a€" where the line north from Oxford joined that from Princes Risborough a€" where passing trains on that day were recorded and photographed by Trevor Owen. Lineside Lens - Thames Valley Great Western Suburban Services - Compiled by Laurence Waters Steam Days at Bury St Edmunds - In another article in the long-running series depicting a specific rail centre in the days of steam, Stanley Jenkins, this month, takes us to a West Suffolk junction where lines from Cambridge, Ipswich, Thetford and Colchester met, providing an interesting variety of trains and motive power. Wight Flag! - Jeffery Grayer recalls the end on the Adams tanks, and remembers a pilgrimage he made in November 1966 to take a last look at the '02' 0-4-4Ts, shortly before steam's final surrender on the Isle of Wight. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: This month in Steam Days magazine we take a trip over to the Isle of Wight at the end of 1966 to witness the last days of the '02' 0-4-4Ts before the introduction of the electric services using former London Transport underground stock. One of those last '02s' running at that time, and pleasingly now preserved, was No W24 Calbourne. seen in June 1960 at Sandown with the 11.10am Ryde (Pier Head) to Ventnor train.
Article Snippets
This month we feature Bury St Edmunds in our 'Steam Days at...' series' of articles, and this view of the pick-up freight from Sudbury provides an excellent view of the tower at the end of the down platform, the tops of the station buildings with their fine array of chimney stacks, and the platform awning, as 'J20' 0- 6-0 No 64679 passes through the down platform with its short freight train.
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