BackTrack Railway Magazine
- BACKTRACK January 2011
- Volume 25 No.1
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - GWR Castle 4-6-0 No.5097 Sarum Castle speeds the Paddington-Cardiff 'Capitals United Express' through Tilehurst in September 1962. - Derek Penney
- 4 Last calls on the GReat Central by David Idle
- 6 The Railway Power Stations, Their Rise and Fall by R.A.S.Hennessey
- 14 In Search of Light, Part One: Jeffrey Wells reviews how the railway companies tackled the problem of illuminating their carriages and stations
- 21 Shildon Works. Photographs by Tom Heavyside
- 22 A Southern Railway Fireman - Wartime memories of Nine Elms and Hither Green as told by Bill Beresford
- 27 Snow and Disaster by Adrian Gray
- 30 In The Bleak Midwinter - Colour-Rail pictorial
- 32 Steaming Through The Thames Valley. photos by Derek Penney
- 36 1948 - The Birth of British Railways: The First Year Part Two by John W.E.Helm
- 41 An Introduction to Steam Locomotive Testing: Trational Locomotive Testing Techniques Part Two by Adrian Tester
- 48 Over The Hills and Far Way, Settle & Carlisle. photographs by Alan Tyson
- 50 The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway and the Beyer Peacock Connection by A.J.Ludlam
- 55 Railway Life in the Highlands by Geoffrey Skelsey
- 58 The Brontes and the Railways by George Smith
- 61 Book Reviews
- 62 Reader's Forum
- Rear Cover Image - WINTERTIME IN WORCESTERSHIRE - The 10.00am Paddington-Hereford hastens through deserted Stoulton station on its way towards Worcester behind GWR Castle 4-6-0 No.7031, Cromwell's Castle on 17th February 1963. J.S.Gilks
- Pages 1-64, 8¼" x 11¾". Pendragon Publishing
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