Steam Days Railway Magazine
- September 2009, No.241
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- On Saturday 11 May 1957, Thompson B1 4-6-0 No.61311 of Stratford shed awaits departure from Liverpool Street station's east side platforms with 5.36pm train Clacton-on-Sea. The electric-multiple-unit in the adjacent platform is a new 1,500 volt dc set on a train to Southend (Victoria). R.C.Riley
- Trains Of Thought
- Memories of Wellingborough
- John Pearson recalls memories of Wellingborough across the last 20 years of steam, ranging from cabbing a Beyer-Garratt and watching 'jubilees' to the thrill of sighting pioneering main line diesels as a schoolboy.
- Steam Days at Ashford
- Stanley Jenkins details the development of Ashford into an mportant rail centre with a large through station, engine shed and works in the days of steam.
- Steam Days in Colour 57: London's Former LNER Termini in BR Days
- The London stations at King's Cross, Liverpool Street, and Marylebone were as different as chalk and cheese, but were linked by a common thread - the LNER and its predecessors.
- Great Western '3100' and '3150; Class 2-6-2Ts
- Developed from the prototype large 2-6-2T, No.99, the '3100' and '3150' classes were precursors of a group of 306 visually similar tank engines, and here Andrew Wilson looks at these locomotives and their later developments
- Edinburgh to Glasgow Direct
- David Anderson describes the evolution and operation of the Caledonian Railway's route between Edinburgh (Princes Street) and Galsgow (Central), via Shotts, with the so-called Cleland & Midcalder branch. Opened as the shortest railway between the two principal lowland cities it was a worthy rival to the North British Railway operated E&G main line
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