Steam Days Railway Magazine
- December 2009, No.244
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- The doyen of the Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' class Pacifics, No.35001 Channel Packet, works an up boat train through Shorncliffe station in May 1959 - Derek Cross
- Trains Of Thought
- Carlisle: The Border City in the days of steam
- David P.Williams recalls visits to Carlisle between 1959 and 1962, when as a Teeside schoolboy it was a magnet in his quest to see and photograph 'Princess Royals' and 'Princess Coronations' at work, as well as enjoy those rare encounters where East Coast and West Coast Pacifics were side by side
- Grangemouth Docks - Rails to the River
- The story of how the Caledonian Railway extended east to the River Forth is revealed by Jim Summers as he describes the fascinating development of the docks at Grangemouth, from its origins at the eastern end of the Forth & Clyde Canal through to the massive expansion by the Caledonian Railway and its subsequent railway operations
- Steam Days in Colour 60: Southern Region Boat Trains
- With its main line connections to the English Channel ports in southern England, the Southern Region was famed for the variety of its boat trains. Enjoy a selection of these through the camera work of some of the finest photographers of the steam era
- The Pembroke Dock Branch
- Stanley Jenkins explores the history of the Whitland to Pembroke Dock line from the days of the isolated Pembroke & Tenby Railway through to the end of BR steam in south-west Wales, and beyond.
- Britain's Titled Trains 36: 'The White Rose'
- One of a long line of expresses that ran between King's Cross and the West Riding cities of Leeds and Bradford, 'The White Rose', as Roger Haigh explains, was one of British Railways' slower titled trains
- Yesterday's News
- Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
- Pages 709-767, 8¼" x 11¾" , 260g. Red Gauntlet Publications
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