Steam Days Railway Magazine

May 2010, No.249
In This Issue
Front Cover Image
No.45428 is seen on 8 November 1967 inside Leeds Holbeck Roundhouse. G.W.Morrison
Trains Of Thought
Remembering 1960 - Fifty years on
Frederick Rogers takes us on a reflective journey back to 1960, a watershed year for British Railways as the last new steam locomotive emerged from Swindon Works
Memories of the Hertford loop Line
A lifetime observing King's Cross and Moorgate to Hertford North suburban services sees John A.Williams recalling the steam era on the Hertford Loop, upon which Winchmore Hill was his local station
Steam Days in Colour 65: Saved from the Cutter's Torch - London Midland Region Mixed Traffic Engines in Service
One of the remarkable things about the preservation movement is the number of steam locomotives that have been saved. 42 years after the end of BR steam many of the LMS-designed mixed traffic classes are still hard at work or under repair. Here is a reminder of some of them in service in their late BR days
Out and About on the 'South Eastern'
Neil Sprinks describes the character of the lines of the former South Eastern Railways and recollects their final decade of steam
The Great Western Railway Churchward 'County' Class 4-4-0s
David Bradshaw reviews the life and times of Churchward's only outside cylinder four-coupled tender engine
Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
Pages 261-319, 8¼" x 11¾" . Red Gauntlet Publications

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