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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
My First Footplate Journey Last of Steam Tea and Sugar Express French Engines in Wales A Prosperous Light Railway From Watts to Kilowatts Modern Freight Handling The Guinness Brewery Railway The Tender-first Look Modified Fairlie Locomotive etc.
Article Snippets
QUARTERLY The Summer 1967 issue of trains illustrated, produced to mark the 25th anniversary of the first publication by Ian Allan, was a huge success, as were the other silver jubilee celebrations, which included a film show at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and a dinner at the Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington. The result of the re-issue of trains illustrated and the big demand for it is its production as a quarterly magazine for enthusiasts during 1968. A feature of this issue is four pages of Vie Welch plates as a centre spread which can be detached by those who would like to frame any of the pictures. I am also much indebted to my friend Trevor Bailey, head of the Ian Allan Travel Department, for lending his framed original by Vie Welch of the Great Western Star class engine No. 4010, Western Star, the last of the first production batch of those high performance four-cylinder locomotives, to make a cover picture. It shows the engine as running between 1912 and 1915 before the beading was removed from the splashers. The other pictures are of a Precursor, a 4-4-0 class which brought about a revolution in the London & North Western motive power department, a Southern School, the largest and most powerful 4-4-0 ever to run in Britain and a Great Western engine of an older generation, a 2-4-0 tank. Coloured supplement in the March trains illustrated will include reproductions of another Vie Welch painting of a Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire 4-4-0 and one of the Locomotive Publishing Company's F. Moore paintings of a Sacre 2-4-0 type engine.
