gresley's giant: first of A fleet? - Conventional wisdom assumes that Sir Nigel Gresley's LNER Garratt was built as a banker, but the late Peter Baxter believed it may have been intended as the first of a fleet of 20.
steam on A third rail - Although regarded as a mainly electric line, the Victoria/London Bridge to Brighton route also produced some impressive steam workings, as demonstrated by Mike Esau using pictures by Colin Hogg.
gathering of the 'clans' - down south - The BR 'Clan' class 'Pacifies' didn't receive the same sort of acclaim as their larger cousins; the Standard 'Britannias', but they nevertheless hauled some fascinating trains, as David Rapson reveals in an article on their operations outside their native Scotland.
the 'saints' go marching on! - The later GWR 4-6-Os could trace their lineage back to the famous 'Saint' class. Peter Treloar charts the history of a hugely influential locomotive design.
comment - The psychology of railway enthusiasm is a rarely-covered subject. The Editor dips his toe into these uncharted and potentially hazardous waters.
call attention - Readers have put on their thinking caps to come up with a series of possible encounters between steam locomotives bearing the same name, and there are the results of our competition for tickets to this year's Royal International Air Tattoo.
GWR 4-6-0s in THE WEST country - A Collett locomotive in Cornwall was a classic symbol of the Great Western. In the first of our two special articles, on the development of GWR 4-6-Os, Bill Ashcroft presents a portfolio of pictures from summer 1959.
A 'stranger' strolls down stewarts lane - In part six of his series on the famous Battersea MPD, former Shedmaster R.H.N. Hardy concludes his examination of the SR 'King Arthur' 4-6-Os.
the turness railtour': 40 years on - Exactly 40 years ago this month, BR Traffic Controller Ron Herbert took a 'busman's holiday' on a railtour over the byways of the former Furness system, as he describes in words and pictures.
what, where, when? - There was a clue to one of the June WWW? puzzlers elsewhere in the same issue of the magazine, spotted by eagle-eyed readers, and there are two fresh mystery pictures to be identified this month.
steam's the theme - It's almost 100 years since the first railcars appearec the forerunners of a type of train that is reaching its apex with the sleek new multiple units being ordered by the privatised train builders. Neville Stead remembers a quartet of LNER steam railcars.
platform - A reader says enthusiasts cannot be blamed for the branch closures of the 1960s, while there's more on No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester and the answer to why No. 46223 failed at Carnforth on the 'Royal Scot' (Darkroom Discoveries, April).
platform postscript - Still more of your letters on popular public perceptions of railway enthusiasts.
all things considered - Our celebrated columnist Andrew Dow, former Head of the National Railway Museum at York. tackles the esoteric but essential subject of occupation crossings.
darkroom discoveries - In contrast to the Gresley Garratt - reputedly the mightiest engine to have worked on Britain's railways - Frank Hornby presents a selection of tiny LMS 0-4-0 tanks.
top link on the east coast - Former footplateman Chris Howden continues his gripping portrayal of life at Doncaster Carr motive power depot in the 1940s.
great shot! - Another powerful two-page photographic evocation of the steam era.
next issue - See what's lined up for the September issue of the nation's biggest-selling historical railway magazine.

Front Cover - Ex-works Gresley 'A3' No. 60052 Prince Palatine stands on Doncaster shed insunny weather in October 1962.