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

HAVE YOU SPOTTED…?

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

FIVE NIGHTS, FIVE ‘BLACK FIVES’ • fell in love with the ‘Black Five’ from almost the first moment he started work at Canklow shed, culminating in a rather wonderful week.

CAMBRIAN, TO BE TAKEN TWICE A YEAR • In the 1960s, Chris Leigh became quite well acquainted with the Cambrian main line thanks to two narrow gauge railways

UNTANGLING THE TEMPLECOMBE KNOT • Why did S&D trains need dragging in and out of Templecombe station? Richard Foster explores the legacy left by a railway company short of money

GREAT SHOT!

THE THOMPS ON ‘PACIFICS’ • Left confused by the various ‘Pacifics’ designed by Edward Thompson? Peter R. Cooper presents an at-a-glance guide to these controversial machines before describing their last years.

THE GWR ‘SAINT’ 4-6-0S • Inspired by the re-creation ofaChurchward ‘Saint’, Richard Derry presents the full life stories of the original engines

‘SAINT’: ESSENTIAL DATA • Compiled from material available at the National Archives

A TRIBUTE TO KEN ROBERTS – PART 3 • A third and final selection (for now…!) by one-time Steam World Editor Nigel Harris, from the photo-archive of Lancastrian Steam World contributor Ken Roberts who died in May

UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT: 35S • Welcome to the fourth in an occasional series but this time we look at something a little different… a former LSWR breakdown crane

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

STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

PICK ‘N’ MIX • CHRIS LEIGH selects a really mixed bag of secondhand steam era colour photographs from his recent purchases.

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