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    Call Attention
    John Dagley-Morris sent me this photograph and I could hardly resist a picture of one of my favourite railway locations. Says John, “May I submit this photograph by my late brother Richard? He would have been aged only 16 when he took it on August 26
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    Reviews
    The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway Peter Johnson Pen Sword Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2AS. Tel: 01226 734222. Web: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Description: Hardback, 225 × 290mm,
    Steam World2 min read
    Steam World Crossword
    A copy of the book The Premier Collection 1950s and 1960s Southern Steam by Terry Cole (Crecy Publishing) will be given to the sender of the first correct answer opened on May 17, 2024. Answers (with your name and address) to SW443 Crossword, Steam W
    Steam World3 min read
    Let's Go Camping - railway Style!
    Spring is on its way, although as I write this ona dismal late afternoon in March, there’s not much sign of it yet. It is the time of year, however, when thoughts start to turn to sun, sea, holidays and getting away from it all… whatever ‘it all’ mig
    Steam World3 min read
    The Other Barry Scrapyards
    Barry’s former docks area has been Btransformed in recent years. New houses line the water front. There are green spaces. Barry Island’s Pleasure Park has been completely restored and is now a thriving tourist attraction. There’s even a solar farm ne
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    I took upa technical post at the Mechanical & Electrical Engineer’s office at Brighton in the summer of 1960.I had moved there from the technical development office at Eastleigh Carriage Works. During my time at Eastleigh,I had been able to keep abre
    Steam World1 min read
    A Toast To Toby part 2
    UPWELL DEPOT: NOW UPWELL DEPOT: THEN DIAL HOUSE FARM: THEN DIAL HOUSE FARM: NOW OUTWELL: THEN OUTWELL: NOW OUTWELL BASIN DEPOT: THEN OUTWELL BASIN DEPOT: NOW OUTWELL BASIN DEPOT: NOW OUTWELL VILLAGE DEPOT: THEN OUTWELL VILLAGE DEPOT: NOW OUTWELL VILL
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    Preparing a 'Castle'
    It was back in the 1990s when I was Iprivileged to borrow some negatives from the widow of photographer Carl Stratmann. I had this sequence of prints showing the preparation of a GWR ‘Castle’ 4-6-0 at Reading depot produced at the time butI don’t thi
    Steam World12 min read
    Railrover Remembered
    It was the beginning of that momentous decade, the 1960s. I had never ventured into North Eastern Region territory but seven years of spotting at the southern end of the East Coast Main Line meant that I’d seen many of that region’s larger locomotive
    Steam World7 min read
    An East Ender's View of Steam
    It is one of my regrets that I didn’t experience rural branch lines in steam days. I grew up in 1950s East London and by the time that I was old enough – and had enough money to travel further afield – Beeching’s axe had fallen and steam was almost g
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    Industrial Magic
    My story is probably similar to that of many other photographers after the end of BR standard gauge steam in 1968. There was still plenty of steam in Britain after August 11 but you had to go further to find it as it was no longer passing through you
    Steam World6 min read
    Platform
    Thank you for an excellent spread on railways in and around Nottingham, in Steam World, April,I enjoyed it very much. The caption on page 13 concerning No. 64125 rightly points out the round-thehouses nature of the journey to Basford North, which beg
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    'Caley 123' To callander
    The Stephenson Locomotive Society organised a special train for May 12 1962 that would bring a touch of excitement to the youthful enthusiasts of Callander. The train would run from Glasgow Central to Oban via Ardlui and the link between the West Hig
    Steam World1 min read
    Steam World
    PUBLISHER: Clive Nicholls EDITOR: Chris Leigh COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Richard Foster CONSULTANT EDITOR: Nigel Harris BA (Hons) DESIGNER: Harrison Coe OFFICE MANAGER: Caroline Kingdom EDITORIAL ADDRESS Steam World,4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Pet
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    Steam Around nottingham
    Building Nottingham Victoria station required demolishing some 1,300 houses and excavating 500,000 cu yards of sandstone to form a cavern, the same depth as the approach tunnels. Due to this, there were numerous vantage points to watch not only train
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    Reviews
    The images of W A C Smith Transport Treasury Publishing, 16 Highworth Close, High Wycombe HP13 7PJ. Tel: 01494 708939. Web: www.ttpublishing.co.uk Description: Soft cover, 273 x 215mm, 116pp. ISBN: 9781 913251642. Price £14.95. The Bo'ness & Kinneil
    Steam World3 min read
    Diesels? In Steam World?
    Yes but before you start cancelling your subscriptions, let us explain… British railway history divides very neatly into clear and distinct periods: the pioneering days, pre-Grouping, ‘Big Four’, British Railways pre-1968, BR post-steam and privatisa
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    Call Attention
    In my feature on the branch lines to Windsor in last month's Steam World, I mentioned the connection between the railway and Salter's Steamers on the Thames at Windsor & Eton Riverside station. Steam still plies the river around Windsor and Runnymede
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    A Day Out In manchester
    It was the Easter holidays, 1962, and I was in Rhyl with the college for a week's walking in Snowdonia. But April 16 was earmarked as a free day. What on earth was I going to do with it? I happened to have my British Locomotive Shed Directory with me
    Steam World1 min read
    Steam World
    PUBLISHER: Clive Nicholls EDITOR: Chris Leigh COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Richard Foster CONSULTANT EDITOR: Nigel Harris BA (Hons) DESIGNER: Harrison Coe OFFICE MANAGER: Caroline Kingdom EDITORIAL ADDRESS Steam World,4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Pet
    Steam World5 min read
    Platform
    In the March 2024 issue of Steam World, you printed a letter from Tony Ramsden suggesting that I did not see certain ex-LNER engines around Newcastle in the 1950s and 60s. He is quite correct as my letter he refers to, called “Spotting in the North-E
    Steam World5 min read
    Seven Summer Saturdays – Part 2
    Part 1 appeared in SW441 (March 2024) Identifying trains as they sped towards London was sometimes difficult when they didn't always carry reporting numbers, or were running in contrary to the timetable. The coaches could provide a clue in some cases
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    Steam World Crossword
    A copy of the book Fife's Last Days of Colliery Steam by Tom Heavyside (Stenlake) will be given to the sender of the first correct answer opened on April 19, 2024. Answers (with your name and address) to SW442 Crossword, Steam World, 4 Milnyard Squar
    Steam World5 min read
    A Toast To Toby
    OUTWELL: THEN OUTWELL: NOW WISBECH: THEN I had a spell in hospital when I was five, which required a long convalescence. It meant that I missed most of my first year of school but books provided one of the distractions that helped my recovery. During
    Steam World2 min read
    Day Trip To Manchester
    APRIL 16 1962 ‘ROYAL SCOT’ 4-6-0 NOS. 46143/158 ‘BLACK FIVE’ 4-6-0 NOS. 44717/750, 45239/386 ‘4F’ 0-6-0 NOS. 44275, 44378, 44489, 44533 FAIRBURN 2-6-4T NOS. 42050, 42112-13/235, 42676 FOWLER 2-6-4T NO. 42306 STANIER 2-6-4T NOS. 42428/79, 42584 FOWLER
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    More On 'Merchant’ Replacements
    W hy did the Southern Region need 35 replacement locomotives in the late spring of 1953 when it only had 30 ‘Merchant Navies'? For example, Stewarts Lane depot received 14 replacement locomotives. How many ‘MNs’ did it have on its books in April 1953
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    Working At Crewe Works
    The Grand Junction Railway arrived in the village of Crewe in 1837. It absorbed the Crewe & Chester Railway in 1840, which prompted it to move its locomotive workshop from Edge Hill, Liverpool, to Crewe. The arrival of workers and their families from
    Steam World5 min read
    THE LAST WELSH 0-6-2Ts
    Flick through something like the 1963/1964 Ian Allan Abc and it's surprising, at this late stage, just how many pre-Grouping locomotives were still in service. Many even dated from the Victorian era. For example, the London Midland Region was still u
    Steam World5 min read
    The 20 ‘Standard Arthurs'
    I grew up to the sound of the former LSWR main line from London Waterloo to Bournemouth and the west. We had a bench and two green gas meters to sit on at our local spotting place at Haines Bridge, to the London side of Weybridge station, with the LS
    Steam World3 min read
    Others Royal Stations
    It was Prince Albert's purchase of Balmoral Castle that reinvigorated efforts to build a railway along the banks of the River Dee in Aberdeenshire. The Deeside Railway had been authorised on July 16 1846. It would link Aboyne to Ferryhill anda juncti

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