Steam Days Railway Magazine
- May 2011, No.261
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image
- Fowler 2P Class 4-4-0 No.40563 waits at Stalbridge with the 12.23pm Templecombe to Bournemouth (West) local service on 27 March 1962. Peter W.Gray
- Trains Of Thought
- Remembering 1961 - Fifty Years On
- Against the backdrop of the traditional railway with relatively little network rationalisation, Frederick Rogers recalls the events of 1961, when the modernisation of the British Railway's locomotive fleet continued apace, with some limited steam improvements, but with the diesel and electric fleet growing by 688 engines, and pre-Grouping steam veterans struggling to survive.
- Steam Days in Colour 77: 'Manor' class 4-6-0s of the GWR and BR(Western Region)
- The smallest of the ex-GWR 4-6-0s, the 'Manors' were found on routes where restrictions barred larger locomotives, and as a result they worked, and are pictured on, some of the most attractive GWR and ex-Cambrian Railways
- Out and About on the 'Somerset and Dorset'
- Well known as the cross-country route between Bath(Green Park) and Bournemouth(West), Neil Sprinks reflects on the history and character of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Line, including its often overlooked raison d'etre
- Rails to Haxey & Epworth
- Alf Ludlam details the three railways that met at Haxey & Epworth on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border - the GN/GE Joint main line from Doncaster towards Gainsborough, the Misson branch from Bawtry, and the Axholme Joint Railway, its Haxey Junction terminus being the southerly point of an L&YR/NER worked light railway from Goole and Fockerby
- Tail Lamp - Readers' Letters
- Pages 261-319, 8¼" x 11¾". Red Gauntlet Publications
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