Features:
"A4" Golden Jubilee - K. S. Farr marks the 50th anniversary of the Gresley streamlined Pacifies and recalls some of their exploits
Centennial Steam in New Zealand - Robin Russell joins in celebrating the hundredth anniversary of a North Island Main Trunk sod-turning ceremony
Locomotive Practice and Performance - P. W. B. Semmens travels by ScotRail expresses then compares old and new on the Glasgow Underground
Royally Commissioned - Patrick Kingston sees the Duke of Gloucester recommission a preserved 3reat Western Royal Saloon, then travel in it and by steam to open the GW. 150 Exhibition Train in Birmingham
A Glasgow Goodbye - Hugh Dougherty rues the replacement of Glasgow Central Station's Train Information Office after eighty years
Jet Quartet - Michael J. Collins reviews gas-turbine projects on British Railways
The Damsel and the Diesel - Arthur G. Wells tells of a ghostly encounter of more than thirty years ago

Regulars:
Panorama
Fifty Years Ago
Mail Bag
News & Notes
Coming Events
Traffic & Traction
Why & Wherefore
Railfare

Front cover - Locomotive 50 002, "Superb", climbs Sapperton Bank with the 09.15 Gloucester- Swindon parcels train on June 1