Steam World Railway Magazine
- Steam World March 1993
- Issue No.69
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - Britannia ex-works rounds the curve at Kirkham en route to Blackpool in December 1967 - K.R.Pirt/KR Photographs B90
- 4 - COMMENT - Opinion and analysis from Steam World editor Chris Leigh
- 6 - THE CRANE TRAIN - Alan Earnshaw follows up his article (May 1992) on development of breakdown trains in the BR era by considering the substantial order placed by the BTC for new cranes in 1959
- 13 - COAL FROM BARGANY - Photographer Derek Cross lived in Glasgow & South Western territory. Not far from his home, the coal mine at Bargany offered the prospect of workaday steam in a picturesque enviroment
- 17 - A DAY AT BOURNE END - With his father, Stephen Gordon spent many days during his school holidays at the lineside recording the passing trains in considerable detail. Only one of those logs survives but it gives a remarkable picture of summer traffic on the West Coast main line in 1959
- 22 - CREWE DEPARTMENTALS - The BR departmental fleet of the 1950s included a remarkable mixture of veteran locomotives, Sentinels, crane tanks, narrow gauge engines and early internal combustion types. Gerald T.Robinson recorded the survivors at Crewe Works in the 1960s
- 27 - DEVON & SOMERSET JOURNEY - Chris Gammell captured some interesting pictures as steam was fading on the Exe Valley and Tone Valley lines
- 35 - SIGNS OF THEIR TIME - This photographic feature brings together a diverse selection of pre-BR signage
- 38 - FAVOURITE JOURNEY, FAVOURITE ENGINE - Chris Leigh's fond memories of Grange 4-6-0s on the Oxford - Worcester line
- 42 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS: A BORDER TOWN - The Royal spa town of Tunbridge Wells on the borders of Kent and Sussex, was also on the borders of the SECR and the LBSCR. Neil Sprinks recalls the variety of motive power which persisted right through to the end of steam
- 49 - PLATFORM - Reader's comments
- 53 - REVIEWS
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