Steam Days

BIRMINGHAM – WHEN STEAM RULED SUPREME

THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY AND ITS SUCCESSORS

Waddon Marsh and its environs

Recalling when his local line was already electrified but still awash with steam-worked goods duties and busy sidings, Eric Stuart tracks the life of the Wimbledon-Mitcham-West Croydon line from its origins and through to modern times as part of...

Great Eastern suburban steam: 1960

Ongoing North East London electrification work on three branch operations early in 1960 saw Leslie R Freeman travel on the remaining intensively worked steam-hauled suburban services of the GE Section, the former ‘Jazz’ services to Chingford and...

STOCKTON & DARLINGTON ROUTES BEYOND ROOTS

The Great Western Railway’s Hall names The near, the far, and the who knows where?

Jim Lindsay reveals how the inspiration for the names of the Collett 4900 and Hawksworth 6959 class 4-6-0s, 259 and 71 locomotives embraced far more than stately homes in GWR territory – and included many oddities.

‘The Notts & Lincs Rail Tour’

The last steam trip to grace London’s St Pancras station, on April 24, 1965, Leslie R Freeman enjoyed this LCGB multi-locomotive outing that reached Mablethorpe as its northern extremity.

WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THE YANKS?

SEEKING OUT ‘BRIGHTON’ STEAM

THE LOCOMOTIVES OF THORNTON JUNCTION’S FINAL STEAM SHED

STEAM DAYS in Colour: 234: Across Stamford by rail – a three counties journey

Setting out from Essendine, Rutland, on the East Coast main line, we traverse the former GNR branch to the Lincolnshire town of Stamford, at its East terminus, before crossing to the ex-Midland Railway route through Stamford (Town). Departing west and...

BYWAYS TO BRECON: THE LAST PASSENGER YEAR

NORTHUMBERLAND’ S STEAM GRAVE YARD

NORTHUMBERLAND’SSTEAMGRAVEYARD

CHELTENHAM (MALVERN ROAD) ENGINE SHED & ITS DUTIES

DARTMOOR’S PRINCETOWN BRANCH REMEMBERED

THE CRANLEIGH LINE

PLUS CROSS-COUNTRY ON THE MIDLAND MAIN LINE TO THE SOUTH & WEST

Danger, high voltage! ‘yellow stripe’ 60 years

Two eras for the Premier line’s ‘George the Fifth’ class 1910-1948 … and as the only pre-World War I express loco for main line operation

At the heart of the project to build a new L&NWR ‘George the Fifth’, Dave Costello and Terry McMenamin consider the history of the class and offer an insight into progress with Prince George.