Steam World

Steam World is Britain's best selling historical railway magazine. Covering the magical times when steam railways were the lifeblood of the country. It features first-hand accounts from drivers, firemen, BR managers and enthusiasts alike. Featuring magnificent photography from the fifties and sixties, it will bring back wonderful memories coupled with inside information of what it was really like to work, travel and play on the world's best railway.

Steam World

BR’s GREAT BRIDGE LEGACY

CALL ATTENTION • Writing at the beginning of the New Year, Chris Leigh rings ‘Call Attention’ to some diverse topics.

STRANGER ON THE EAST COAST • Colin Boocock travelled from Bournemouth to see something of the eastern side of the UK, most of which was unfamiliar territory to him

THE ORDINARY AND THE MUNDANE • The humble 0-6-0 kept Britain’s railways moving. Jeremy Clarke profiles the LBSCR six-coupled goods engine found at his local shed

GEOFF’S STANDARD COLLECTION • We once again dip into the archive of the late Geoff Rixon to present some of the many BR Standards that he pointed his camera at during his remarkable photographic career

BANK HALL’S ‘JUBILEES’ • Having looked at ER ‘Pacifics’ that spent long periods at one shed, Gavin Morrison turns his attention to Bank Hall shed on Merseyside and the three ‘Jubilees’ that called it home from Nationalisation to withdrawal

GREAT SHOT!

REVIVAL OF A WEALDEN WONDER • Holman Pred Stephens built a railway to serve Tenterden in Kent when the South Eastern Railway didn’t want to know. Chris Leigh’s 1960s visits were a glimpse of its revival

PLATFORM • send your letters to Steam World, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton South gate, Peterborough PE2 6GX or steamworld@choicemag.co.uk

STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

A BOILERSMITH’S APPRENTICESHIP • There are plenty of reminiscences of life on the footplate. But what about working in the workshops and depots? Norman Payne describes what it was like as an apprentice boilersmith

THE ‘56XX’ 0-6-2TS • Richard Derry pays tribute to one of the Great Western Railway’s unsung heroes, which kept the railways of South Wales moving for over 40 years

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