Railways Illustrated Railway Magazine

Railways Illustrated June 2009
In This Issue
Front Cover Image - 5029 Nunney Castle passes Sidney Gardens Bath, on the 'Bristol Explorer' July 26 "008 - Robin Coombes
The BIG NEWS this June:
14 Eastleigh open day preview
15 50008 for August main line return
18 66/3 rescues East Midlands HST
20 Advenza sells 47 for scrap
22 Class 90s back on Birmingham services
26 Western Courier for the main line?
32 Through trains return to Swanage
Features:
8 How King Coal lost his Throne - Paul Shannon looks at the decline in the coal industry since the start of the 1984 miners' strike
42 The Miracle of Barry Scrapyard - Hundreds of steam locos were preserved after they lingered in Barry Scrapyard, as Mark Hicken recalls
48 A Pen-t up Passion - The superb station at Yeovil Pen Mill is this month's National Treasure
50 RI Photo Awards - All the winners of the 2008 Railways Illustrated photo awards
62 Shunted Into a Corner? - A full round up of all the surviving Class 08/09 shunters
74 Coal Crunching - Pip Dunn remembers some of the coal locos pressed into passenger action during the 1984 miners' strike
Regulars:
6 First Thoughts
14 News
26 Heritage News
32 Charter News
36 Steam News
49 Industrial News
56 News Pictorial
68 International News
72 Irish news
78 Reviews
81 In The Box
86 Digital Photoguide
84 Railwayana
90 The Railways Illustrated Diary
94 Away From The Rails
95 Book Competion
96 In The Stores
98 Next Issue
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