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rains of Thought Post-war steam-hauled Express Services to the Sussex Coast - Gerald Siviour takes a detailed look at the many cross-country express trains that worked to and from the Sussex Coast resorts after World War II until the end of steam. BR Standard '9F' 2-10-0s on Passenger Trains - Although the BR-built '9F' 2-10-Os were conceived as powerful freight locomotives they had a surprising turn of speed and, as Andrew Wilson relates, they quickly found themselves rostered to passenger duties. STEAM DAYS in Colour 33: Preserved LMS and GWR 4-6-Os in BR Service - Numerous 4-6-Os locomotives of LMS and Great Western origin were saved from the cutter's torch, and in this month's All-Colour photo-feature we illustrate some of these now-preserved locomotives, or pending preservation, at work when in BR service. STEAM DAYS at Whitby - A. J. Ludlam unravels the history of the railways which served that most delightful of Yorkshire fishing ports a€ Whitby. Learning the job at Inverness - Jim Gordon recalls the 4^ years that he spent at Inverness engine shed where he progressed from cleaner to fireman and was taught how the job should be done properly. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: In this month's issue of STEAM DAYS magazine we feature the BR Riddles '9F' 2-10-Os on passenger workings, and our front cover scene shows No 92230 making haste with a down express ex-Paddington at White Waltham, near Maidenhead in Berkshire, on 8 August 1959. Allocated to Old Oak Common this particular '9F' 2-10-0 seems to have been a favourite choice on weekend passenger trains at this time. An engine of the class to have a very short working life, No 92230 entered traffic in August 1958 and was condemned in December 1965.
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Inside Cover: Ex-LMS 'Black Five' No 45407 is pictured here ready to leave Colne in Lancashire with an evening vans train to Preston on 2 August 1968, just prior to the end of steam on BR. Now owned by lan Riley, this now-preserved 4-6-0 locomotive is nominally based at Bury in Lancashire and this year has been regularly used on main-line specials in both England and Scotland, and is probably the most widely-travelled of the preserved locomotives with a main-line certificate this year.
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