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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
EATURES:
NEWS PAGES - A 'Supertram' plan unveiled; 'Intercity 250' out to tender; the 'Princesses' that shrank; Avon Valley Railway extension opens; an exciting transport strategy for Leeds; Stratford Level 5 Maintenance Depot closes.
'MERCHANT NAVY' MILEPOST - It's hard to believe that the flret 'Merchant Navy' Pacific, complete with Its then-sensational air-smoothed casing, emerged half a century ago. Helped by some very early photographs from The Railway Magazine's archives, K. S. Farr celebrates the 50th anniversary of a class which. In Its later rebuilt form, has managed to live on quite profusely In preservation.
LOCOMOTIVE PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE - This month, Chief Correspondent Peter Semmens focuses his attention on Western Region Intercity 125 performance.
UNDERSTANDING ATP - The signalling and control method known as Automatic Train Protection Is one of the most Important railway developments of the age. Modern Traction Editor Colln J. Marsden explains, In layman's terms, how It all works.
VIC BERRY BLAZE - Assistant Editor Chris Mllner reports on the devastating blaze that broke out at Vie Berry's scrapyard during March.
TRIBUTE TO THE CLASS 50s - It will be a sad day when the last of the much-revered class 50 locomotives turns a wheel In anger In British Railways main line service. John Vaughan pays a warm tribute to the 'Hoovers' In words and photograph*.
CAMBRIAN SUMMERS - As the date of the last regular-service loco-hauled train on the Cambrian Line approaches, we begin a two-part 'Cambrian Countdown' with lan R. Smith's fond re- collections of a line which, somehow, always managed to retain that Great Western magic. Next month, Brian Robblns covers the transition from steam to diesel power on the line.
21 YEARS OF THE 'BRIGHT SPARKS' - When the Southern Electric Group was formed In 1970, the Idea of preserving 'modern Image' trains a€ even H they did date from before the second world war a€" was novel. K. R. Whitbread reports on the SEG's achievements over that period.
REGULARS:
50 & 20 Years Ago
Platform 5 stock changes
Mallbag
Channel Tunnel Update
Coming Events
International News
Railfare
Why & Wherefore
Also included in this issue is a 24-page supplement ""Preservation '91""
NEWS PAGES - A 'Supertram' plan unveiled; 'Intercity 250' out to tender; the 'Princesses' that shrank; Avon Valley Railway extension opens; an exciting transport strategy for Leeds; Stratford Level 5 Maintenance Depot closes.
'MERCHANT NAVY' MILEPOST - It's hard to believe that the flret 'Merchant Navy' Pacific, complete with Its then-sensational air-smoothed casing, emerged half a century ago. Helped by some very early photographs from The Railway Magazine's archives, K. S. Farr celebrates the 50th anniversary of a class which. In Its later rebuilt form, has managed to live on quite profusely In preservation.
LOCOMOTIVE PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE - This month, Chief Correspondent Peter Semmens focuses his attention on Western Region Intercity 125 performance.
UNDERSTANDING ATP - The signalling and control method known as Automatic Train Protection Is one of the most Important railway developments of the age. Modern Traction Editor Colln J. Marsden explains, In layman's terms, how It all works.
VIC BERRY BLAZE - Assistant Editor Chris Mllner reports on the devastating blaze that broke out at Vie Berry's scrapyard during March.
TRIBUTE TO THE CLASS 50s - It will be a sad day when the last of the much-revered class 50 locomotives turns a wheel In anger In British Railways main line service. John Vaughan pays a warm tribute to the 'Hoovers' In words and photograph*.
CAMBRIAN SUMMERS - As the date of the last regular-service loco-hauled train on the Cambrian Line approaches, we begin a two-part 'Cambrian Countdown' with lan R. Smith's fond re- collections of a line which, somehow, always managed to retain that Great Western magic. Next month, Brian Robblns covers the transition from steam to diesel power on the line.
21 YEARS OF THE 'BRIGHT SPARKS' - When the Southern Electric Group was formed In 1970, the Idea of preserving 'modern Image' trains a€ even H they did date from before the second world war a€" was novel. K. R. Whitbread reports on the SEG's achievements over that period.
REGULARS:
50 & 20 Years Ago
Platform 5 stock changes
Mallbag
Channel Tunnel Update
Coming Events
International News
Railfare
Why & Wherefore
Also included in this issue is a 24-page supplement ""Preservation '91""
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