British Railways Illustrated Magazine
- BRILL March 1999
- Volume 8 No.6
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - In the trough. 8F No.48284 cops a full 'un at Bushey in May 1963.
- 228 The Great Northern in London: The Enfield Line by Peter Kay
- 240 War Report: Stopping the Tanks - One smiliarity at least between the two World Wars, was the extent to which their prosecution depended upon railways. Both were wars between economies, and by far the principal form of transport was rail. Yet under certain circumstances the railways could prove a danger. The War Ministry saw the lines leading into London (so close to the invasion threated south coast) as possible 'fast-tracks' into the capital and steps were taken to bar them to the speeding Panzers...
- 242 It can now be revealed - How did BR Standard 2-6-4T No.80034 lose its front pair of wheels in the summer of 1958? Driver Dennis Redrup had to take the blame, though the fireman got off./ All can now be told
- 244 Around The Works: Notes by Allan Baker - More horse's mouth description of procedure and practice at Crewe Works - this time the work of the fearsome Steam Cleaning Pits
- 246 Thirties File - Liverpool Street with two very different B17 4-6-0s, the conventional No.2837 Thorpe Hall beneath the heavy-girdered Primrose Street bridge and the streamlined No.2859 East Anglian, bringing in the first train of that name
- 247 Crane Contretemps - A 19RB Ruston-Bucyrus crane in trouble with another, rigged up as a grab, going to its assistance
- 248 The Midland Cometh (Sort Of): Banbury Shed in the 1960s - Mike Kinder pondered the photograph of Banbury shed and the query about Midlandisation in the October 1998 issue of BRILL, and thought on't..
- 256 Dodging the Overflow : The Troughs at Bushey
- 268 A Life of Steam
- 269 A Reader Writes
- Pages 228-270, 8¼" x 11¾", 210g. Irwell Press
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