Steam Days Railway Magazine

August 2009, No.240
In This Issue
Front Cover Image
Newly overhauled No.60160 Auld Reekie restarts a King's Cross to Leeds semi-fast service away from Platform 2 at Retford Station North in January 1962. Keith Pirt
Trains Of Thought
The Peppercorn A1 Pacifics
Interest in the Peppercorn A1 Pacifics has never been greater, thanks to the building of No.60163 Tornado and Steam Days magazine pays tribute to these powerful machines
Locomotive Name and their Origins: The Scottish Directors of the LNER
Andrew Wilson looks at the life and times of the D11.2 class 4-4-0s which were named after characters in the works of Sir Walter Scott
Steam Days in Colour 56: Titled Trains on the London Midland Region
Remarkably, the London Midland Region of British Railways ran no less than thirty titled trains, and here Steam Days illustrate a third of these to recreate one of the more memorable features of the steam era in BR days
Southern Railway Standard Gauge Engine Sheds in Devon
Engine sheds, whether large or small, were fascinating places to visit and the Southern Railway's depots in Devon, which ranged in size from Exmouth Junction to Seaton, were no exception, as Chris Andrews explains
Rails Around Llanelly Part One: Pre-Nationalisation - Roger Malyn explores the creation and development of the railway network that served the most westerly of the heavily industrialised South Wales towns
Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
Pages 449-510, 8¼" x 11¾" . Red Gauntlet Publications

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