Steam World Railway Magazine
- Steam World August 2009
- Issue No.266
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - Tilbury Tank 4-4-2T No.80 Thundersley is 100 yearsold. It is at Stratford on 11 March 1956 - R.E.Vincent
- 4 COMMENT - Opinion and analysis from Steam World editor Chris Leigh
- 6 CALL ATTENTION - More steam oddities, suggestions and comments
- 14 PLATFORM - Reader's comments
- 8 A TELEGRAPH LAD - in 1948 Ken Hook joined the ten-new British Railways
- 19 SEASON TICKET - David Maidment is a commuter with a Woking-Waterloo ticket
- 26 ON DUTY: EYES OPEN - A year in the life of the Lad Porter at Leamington Spa in 1957
- 30 FASTLINE FILES - The replacement of Bridge 100 at Darlington, by Andrew Dow
- 34 GREAT SHOT! - A Britannia sweep westwards near Bristol, for South Wales
- 36 IN PASSING - Paul Beko enjoys a visit to Sonning Cutting in March 1957
- 40 THE DREADED BLOW UP - Fireman Alan Mitchell recalls a day when it all went wrong
- 44 THE (NUMBER) ONE - When GNR No.1 made history in 1938, Reg Batten was there
- 47 CATCHING THE BUG - A spell of isolation leads to Chris Forrest taking up train spotting
- 54 MATCHLESS STEAM - Best known for his matchstick people, L.S.Lowry tackles railways
- 56 THAT REMINDS ME - Railways providing houses for staff, discussed by Andrew Dow
- 58 100 YEARS OF THUNDERING THUNDERSLEY - Sole Tilbury Tank survivor Thundersley is 100 this year
- 65 REVIEWS
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