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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Tank engine to Tunbridge Wells - In an account adapted by railway writer Anthony Vent, the late Hubert Hobden describes a firing turn on the 'Cuckoo Line' from Eastbourne three years before the 1923 Grouping. Pecketts on parade! - For the best part of eight decades, Peckett and Sons Ltd manufactured high-quality industrial locomotive at its Atlas works in Bristol. Brian Syddall pays tribute to these unsung but essential engines. 'The Plant': A plaintive farewell - Regular Steam World contributor John Clarke, who grew up in Doncaster, remembers the town's legendary locomotive works, which will soon be consigned to history. Summer Saturdays on the 'S&D' - With'the onset of summer, Barry Gant turns the clock back 40 years to the days when a host of holiday services ran over the Somerset and Dorset line on Saturdays during the season. Comment - Unglamorous but indispensable, industrial locomotives are the subject of this month's editorial comment. Call attention - There never was a locomotive called City of Preston... or was there? All is revealed in our monthly round-up of the offbeat and unusual. What, where, when? - Two pre-Grouping stations are this month's mystery pictures. Burning the miles on the GWR! - The Great Western's use of oil-burning locomotives during the post-war coal shortage is recounted in words and pictures by Peter Harrod. Darkroom discoveries - In the month of the Queen's Golden jubilee, Peter Fitton presents a selection of black-and-white pictures of Stanier's celebrated 'jubilee' 4-6-Os. A 'stranger' strolls down stewart's lane - Steam World stalwart R.H.N. Hardy recalls some more of the exuberant characters he had to control as Shedmaster at Stewart's Lane, and begins an examination of the 'Lord Nelson' 4-6-Os. David's daily telegraph! - As a sequel to Ron Herbert's four-part series on his early career as a BR telegraphist, David Holderness describes his own stint as a Junior Telegraph Clerk, at Peterborough North tracks in the snow - In a short but unusual article, Swedish-based Max Brandt focuses on British-rolled rail that is still in use in the Scandinavian country. Fitter across the mersey - Paul Hurley continues his account of the railway career of former Liverpool Edge Hill fitter John Corkill. Steam's THE theme - What goes around comes around... Neville Stead reveals how a long-closed branch line in the North East is enjoying a new lease of life. Platform - Another bumper five-page selection of your views, observations, questions and comments. All things considered - Our respected columnist Andrew Dow provides some more considered comment on an aspect of railway history. Carlisle captured in colour - Savour another selection of Bob Leslie's sumptuous colour prints of the railway in and around Carlisle. Reviews - Books, a computer simulator pack and a video all come under our reviewers' gaze this month. Air tatto competition - For the second successive year, organisers of the Rova| International Air Tattoo are offering Steam World readers 15 pairs of tickets - worth a total of Ã
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