December 2022

Steam World

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PUBLISHER: Clive Nicholls EDITOR: Chris Leigh CONSULTANT EDITOR: Nigel Harris BA (Hons) DESIGNER: Lucy Carnell OFFICE MANAGER: Caroline Kingdom EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Judith Murray EDITORIAL ADDRESS Steam World, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Pete
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Where It All Began - The Next Stage
In Steam World (September 2021), I recorded how I worked my last shift as a Booking Clerk at Clock House on Saturday February 8 1958 (early turn) and the next day left my digs in Beckenham with grateful thanks to friends, Roger and Wyn with whom I ha
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Call Attention
In the 1980s, when I was Deputy Editor of Railway World, one of my responsibilities (because there was no one else to do the job) was to ‘look after’ the Locomotive Publishing Company negative collection. This collection of, we estimated, over 100,00
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Platform
Many years ago, in the 1950s, my parents owned a wooden chalet at the west end of Lyme Regis (long since destroyed by the falling cliffs between there and Seaton) and on most Saturdays in August my dad would drive us all down to Lyme for a week or tw
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The Men Who 'Tapped' And 'Hooked'
In my youth, railwaymen, like seafarers had a certain weather-beaten look. They were seldom young and when seen at work, they were usually busy. Take a good look at the railwayman in this picture, another of those ‘human interest’ photographs by Amer
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Steam World Crossword
A copy of the book Atlantic: The Well Beloved Engine by .A.S. Hennessey (Tempus Publishing) will be given to the sender of the first correct answer opened on December 16, 2022. Answers (with your name and address) to SW426 Crossword, Steam World, 4 M
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1961: A Spotter's Year
In 1961 Ipswich, at the beating heart of East Anglia, wasn’t the best place for a steam enthusiast. Diesels were everywhere. Our beloved ‘Brits’ were hanging on at Norwich but most had departed for March on their inexorable journey up north by the ye
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Southern Incursions And Excursions
For fans of Southern steam, there was nothing like seeing a Southern locomotive far from its natural habitat. Equally, the incursions of ‘foreign’ steam power greatly added to the interest in steam on the Southern in its dying years during the early
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The Tortuous Path To 'Duchess' Withdrawal
As winter turned towards spring and the need to provide steam heat for at least the day-time services ceased, if not the sleeping car services, the availability of the Type 4 diesels improved. It was decided to place all of the ‘Princess Royals’ into
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An Eight-year Adventure 1955-63
The final death throes of BR main line steam, which culminated in the Fifteen Guinea Special in August 1968, completely passed me by. By 1968 I was coming to the end of my time at university and, anyway, the peak of my childhood railway interest had
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Reflections At Perth
A selection from the archives of Initial Photographics gives glimpses of 63A in 1962, 1965 and 1966. With thanks to Scotrail Driver Gary Straiton for assistance with caption research. ■
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BOOK REVIEW OF THE MONTH Lightmoor Press, Unit 144B, Lydney Trading Estate, Harbour Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire GL15 4EJ. Tel: 01993 773927. Web: www.lightmoor.co.uk Description: Hardback, 282mm x 224mm, 312pp. ISBN: 9781915069061. Price £40.00 The

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