Steam Days Railway Magazine
- May 2008, No.225
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- No.5023, Brecon Castle at Chalford, 17th August 1959, B J Ashworth
- Trains Of Thought
- Named Locomotives and their origins: The GWR & BR Welsh Marches 'Castle' class 4-6-0s Part One - The 11th Century Norman strongholds
- Chris Andrews looks at the links between some of the castles built on the Welsh Border and the Collett 'Castle' class 4-6-0 locomotives that carried their names. In Part One we look at the principal fortifications and their associated locomotives.
- Helensburgh and Balloch
- David Anderson describes the history and development of the now electrified West Clydesdale railway routes to Helensburgh and Balloch via Dumbarton, and the railway owned steamers that operated from Craigendoran on the River Clyde and on Loch Lomond.
- Steam Days in Colour 41: Freight, Parcels and ballast trains in Northamptonshire
- Goods, minerals and parcel traffic was the life-blood of the steam railway, and through the lens of Keith Pirt's camera we can sample the diversity of these workings that passed through Nottinghamshire between 1957 and 1964
- Steam Days at Coventry
- Stanley Jenkins takes a detailed look at the development of the railways in and around the cathedral city of Coventry.
- Britain's Titled Trains 32: The Royal Wessex
- Roger Haigh recounts the life and times of the 'Royal Wessex' - one of the few named trains to run between Waterloo, Bournemouth Central, and Weymouth whose origins date back to L&SWR days.
- Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
- Pages 261-319, 8¼" x 11¾" . RedGaunlet Publications
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