BR Steam's last stand - Rose Grove and the climb to Copy Pit: Mike Taylor starts a two-pan historical review of his local shed at Rose Grove, in Bumlcy, and the last few months of steam traction over the climb to Copy Pit
Recalling the CLC: The Cheshire Lines Committee's most enduring memorial today is Manchester Central station, which lives on as the G-Mex exhibition centre. Peter Hay tells the story of the CLC, which gave the LNWR and LYR plenty of competition on the important link to Liverpool
Westward from Waterloo - 1959: An analysis of summer traffic on the West of England main line, from Waterloo, during 1959, by Steam Railway Research Society member Mike Thompson
The Wider View - GWR 28XX' 2-8-0 No. 2866. - Another tribute to Keith Pirt's colour photography and the quality of Kodachrome in this nostalgic feature
Swinon Apprentice - Part II: William Bullock concludes his recollections of a 1930s engineering training in the heart of the GWR empire - including a 100mph trip on the footplate of 'streamlined' 'Castle' 4-6-0 No. 5005 Manorbier Castle
David Hepburne-Scott - An Appreciation: A tribute to the photography of a respected and couneous gentleman whose life was taken by an assailant last month. Words by Richard Ray and Dr John Coiley
Book Review: Good, bad or just plain indifferent? A critical look at some of the new railway books.
Rail Archive Stephenson Update - the late D.T. Greenwood: Brian Stephcoson presents a cross-section of images from the latest top quality archive to be added to RAS. Words by Bill Ashcroft.
Platform: Thompson's locomotive policy, the quest for the longest (and shonest) signalbox names in the country - and reactions to reader J.W.B. Griffith's comment in the last issue that the 'filthy' LMS was to be endured rather than enjoyed!
Railtouring Longmoor: Norman Glover has produced a quartet of transparencies from a 1966 visit to the Longmoor Military Railway.
Talking to Thompson: Geoff Hughcs concludes his two-part assessment of a 1948 dialogue between railway historian Brian Reed and Hdward Thompson, after his retirement as CMH of the LNHR.
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Front cover: The sheer spectacle of steam's last stand on the climb to Copy Pit summit, in Lancashire, during 1968 is encapsulated in this view of Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 48247 storming towards the summit with a loaded coal train from the Yorkshire coalfield, assisted by one of Rose Grove MPD's bankers.