Backtrack

Who goes where? When drafting this editorial around the beginning of July, it came to the forefront of my mind that it was nigh on eighteen months since I’d made a journey on a main line train, a span of time not equalled since my age was reckoned in

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“We’re looking for someone to research Great Western Railway camp coaches!” The speaker was Paul Karau, boss of Wild Swan Publications in his front room/office in Didcot, talking from behind a table piled high with photographs, maps, plans, signallin

The photograph of Gloucester Eastgate station in the July 2021 issue p382 was taken by Ben Brooksbank and is dated 14th July 1961.The print used bore no attribution but I’m pleased to be able to credit it to Ben Brooksbank and am grateful to Paul Boo

| ★★★★★Excellent|★★★★Very Good| ★★★Good| ★★Fair| ★Poor| Edward Thompson: His Life and Locomotives By Tim Hillier-Graves. Published by Pen & Sword. 283 pages, £35. ISBN 978 1 52673 116 6. Of all Britain’s locomotive engineers, certainly in the twentie