Steam Days Railway Magazine
- December 2010, No.256
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- Working its way along the picturesque Ballachulish branch, ex Caledonian Railway Pickersgill 0-6-0 No.57667 pauses at Appin, mid-way along the branch, July 1959. Keith Pirt
- Trains Of Thought
- Thompson B1 Class 4-6-0s on Lincolnshire Duties
- A.J.Ludlam describes the work of the B1 4-60os that became part and parcel of the railway scene in England's second largest county
- Redhill depot - Central Steam's Last Redoubt
- The last steam depot on the Southern Region (Central Division) attempted to eradicate steam in early 1965, yet Jeffery Grayer reveals that it was not quite as clear-cut as that
- Steam Days in Colour 72: Ballachulish Branch Services
- Opened in 1903, the 28-mil long Ballachulish Branch line diverged from the Callander & Oban Railway main line at Connel Ferry, yet it was generally worked as a branch from Oban. We induldge in the irresistable combination of the picturesque route to Oban and its domination by ex-Caledonian Railway engines into the early 1960s
- Memories of Shap 1960-67
- The long northbound climb to Shap Summit was a formidable challenge for footplatemen in the days of steam-hauled trains, the weather often contributing to difficult ascents, itself helping to make Shap a legendary location that lured railway photographers. David Williams illustrates and recalls his photographic pilgramages to the windswept Westmoorland fells.
- Tales from the Golden Valley
- The Sapperton banking and Chalford Auto workings of the small sub-shed at Brimscombe, in the Golden Valley between Gloucester and Kemble, are detailed by Steve Bartlett and enhanced with footplate stories from the late Geoge Jarman, a Brimscombe fireman
- Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
- Pages 705-766, 8¼" x 11¾". Red Gauntlet Publications
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