Steam World Railway Magazine

Steam World December 2009
Issue No.270
In This Issue
Front Cover Image - LMS Duchess No.46235 City of Birmingham of Crewe North MPD (5A) is at Willesden shed, London, in May 1962 - Geoff Rixon
4 COMMENT - Opinion and analysis from Steam World editor Mel Holley
6 CALL ATTENTION - More steam oddities, suggestions and comments
8 TONDU to MARLOW - An acute shortage of firemen in London means quick promotion
15 PLATFORM - Reader's comments
19 PLYMOUTH IN THE PEAK - Recalling the busy summer of 1959, when traffic was at its peak
24 LMS GARRATT FACTS - Evidence showing logical reasoning for the LMS Beyer-Garratt order
30 BOOKING OFFICE - ...to the British Railways Board via napalm, pigs and detonators!
34 GREAT SHOT! - A Merchant Navy 4-6-2 with the down Golden Arrow in 1959
36 SEASON TICKET - David Maidment is transferred to South Wales for more training
42 WHY DID HE LEAVE? - The Midland Railway's youthful Locomotive Superintendent quits.
46 DEMOB LEAVE: 1955 - Fred Rich continues his footplate adventures on the Southern
56 THAT REMINDS ME - Views from Andrew Dow
60 A RARE BIRD - The rare sight of an LNER Pacific at London Waterloo in 1963
64 REVIEWS
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