Steam World Railway Magazine
- Steam World July 2011
- Issue No.289
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - Clas O2/4 2-8-0 No.63945 pounds past the permanent way hut at Swayfield at 10am on September 13 1963 with an up class H freight. Noel Ingram
- 4 COMMENT - Opinion and analysis from Steam World editor Chris Leigh
- 6 CALL ATTENTION - More steam oddities, suggestions and comments
- 8 BONGOS AND BULLEIDS TO BRITS: 2 - The concluding part of R.H.N.Hardy's reminiscence of early days working with BR Standard 7MT class Britannias
- 14 THE COLOUR WIGHT - Marking 40 years of railway preservation on the Isle of Wight, Bryan Hicks reminds us how the island's railways looked in 1964
- 18 WHITEHAVEN COLLIERY RAILWAYS: 3 - Stephen Oakden concludes his story of the remarkable colliery railway which linked Whitehaven pits with the harbour.
- 24 GREAT SHOT! -A truly awesome shot in the West Highlands by the redoubtable W.J.V.Anderson
- 26 DREADNOUGHT GOODBYE - Peter Fitton recalls the last run of the impressive Lancashire & Yorkshire Dreadnought 4-6-0s
- 30 PLATFORM - Reader's comments
- 32 THE LONG CLIMB AND I MADE IT! - Brian Topping reminds us that footplate work wasn't a pleasure when your driver was hostile
- 36 THAT REMINDS ME - Views from Andrew Dow
- 38 THE NELSONS OF THE SOUTHERN - We take a look at the Lord Nelson 4-6-0s, Maunsell's great masterpiece
- 44 BRITISH STEAM IN PERSIA AND EUROPE - Stephen C.Philips pays tribute to the railwaymen who worked abroad during the Second World War.
- 46 GRESLEYS HUSH HUSH - David Cullen reminds us of the story behind Gresley's 4-6-4
- 54 ROTHERHAM MASBOROUGH REVISITED - Alan Mitchell adds information to a photograph previously published
- 56 A BASKET FULL OF PANNIERS - A photographic reminder of the Great Western pannier tanks and their duties
- 62 THE COLOUR OF CREAM - A special Colour-Rail contribution of the work of Trevor Owen
- 65 REVIEWS
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