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In a guest editorial contributor TERRY McCARTHY airs some thoughts on a matter which no doubt resonates with other authors of books and articles. At university we were informed a diagram or map was worth a thousand words. Experience has shown me the

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One of the drawbacks to reading railway history, apart from repetition too often of myths and half truths, is that little attention is paid to the inter-relations between those members of management who played a crucial part in the developmental prog

Alas the two picture captions on p347 of the June issue are transposed: North Star is the one at the top, it says so on the side of it! Ed. Well done in providing a picture of the ex-Midland Railway battery loco B.E.L.1 at West India Dock coal depot

★★★★★ Excellent | ★★★★ Very Good | ★★★ Good | ★★ Fair | ★ Poor | By Andrew Clark, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2022, 503 pp, 297 × 210mm, £75.00.. What, you may ask, is a book about a shipping company doing being reviewed in a railway journal? Well, as y