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

A QUESTION OF GAUGE

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STEAMING AROUND BOURNEMOUTH • Let this super selection of scenes from Gavin Morrison beat the winter blues by reminding us that summer does come soonest in the south! We start on lines around Bournemouth's two stations

END OF WESTERN REGION STEAM • August 11 1968 will forever be remembered as the end of standard gauge steam on BR. But, on the Western Region, November 27 1965 wasaday of some significance… but it wasn’t quite the end

THE HUMBLE CARRIAGE • Bob Saxby looks at the humblest of passenger carriages, the non-gangwayed, in its last incarnation as a BR standard design

THE KILLAMARSH TANGLE • Ronald Gee unpicks the complex history of the lines that threaded their way through the Rother Valley

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RHEIDOL BLUES - THE LAST OF ITS KIND • By the 1960s, the Vale of Rheidol was British Railways’ only narrow gauge railway and was unique in other ways, too. CHRIS LEIGH recalls a 1964 visit and provides a glimpse of the railway in its 20 years of BR operation

THE CHURCHWARD ‘MOGULS’ – PART 2 • How do you describe the duties of a class such as the ‘43XX’? Richard Derry concludes his survey of these mixed traffic 2-6-0s by taking one shed as an example

THOSE ‘43XX’ REBUILDS • It's well known that some ‘43XXs’ were withdrawn in order to provide parts for new ‘Granges’ and ‘Manors’. Richard Derry presents a detailed list of which 2-6-0s were cannibalised

THE GREAT WESTERN'S ‘J25’ • Using a collection of letters and memos, Richard Foster tells the story of how 40 LNER 0-6-0s were prepped for use on the GWR

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

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THE ‘JUBILEE ADMIRALS' • Peter R. Cooper tells the stories behind the names of the ‘Jubilees’ named after Royal Navy personnel

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