Steam Days Railway Magazine
- May 2006, No.201
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- On 23 May 1956 No.7806 Cockington Manor is seen here accelerating away from Llanbadarn Crossing with the up Aberystwyth portion of the Cambrian Coast Express - T.B.Owen
- Trains Of Thought
- Remembering 1956 - Fifty years on
- Following the brief reviews of 1954 and 1955 which appeared in STEAM DAYS magazine in 2004 and 2005, Frederick Rogers now looks back at fifty years to 1956 and the railway scene during that year, and recalls other notable non-railway events of that year.
- The Last Days of Irish Steam
- Many railway enthusiasts headed for the Emerals Isle to witness the diminshing steam era on the railways of Ireland, and David Anderson, one of those who crossed the Irish Sea at that time in 1959, recalls those dying days of steam-hauled trains in Ireland
- Steam Days in Colour 17: BR-built Pacifics on the Eastern and North Eastern Regions
- Another 'All-Colour' photo-feature from the cameras of some of Britain's top prolific railway photographers in the days of steam-hauled trains, this month taking a look at those Pacific locomotives that were completed after 1948 by British Railways and that worked over the lines of the Eastern and North Eastern Regions
- Steam Days at Oldham
- Stanley Jenkins takes a look at the interesting railway scene around Oldham in Lancashire and the town's railway infrastructure in the days of steam-hauled trains, together with the type of traffic and the locomotives that worked through the town.
- The Collett '4800' and '5800' class 0-4-2Ts of the Great Western Railway
- Andrew Wilson reviews a popular class of Great Western branch-line engine that was particularly reminiscent of the many rural lines in the West Country, Mid-Wales and South Wales, and the Welsh border counties, with the '4800s' (later to become '1400s') auto-fitted for motor-train duties on the GWR and BR(Western Region)
- Book Reviews
- Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
- Pages 259-319, 8¼" x 11¾" . Red Gauntlet Publications
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