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25/05/2024

The “Golden Age” of British Railways wasn’t only about the incomparable network of steam services, the most complex and comprehensive anywhere in the world, but also the many service operations that were vital to keep the network running.

One of the most important, as it is today, is the Permanent Way Department although it was all done a lot differently then.

In the June issue of Steam World Malcolm Lobban tells of his career in the Permanent Way gangs – the camaraderie, everything done by hand and strong backs, the characters, brewing tea in a Tate and Lyle golden syrup tin and the exacting standards.

It’s a fascinating reminiscence and part of the rich history of British Rail steam.

Don’t miss out on this and plenty of other excellent features and many brilliant pictures in the June issue. Buy your copy today https://bit.ly/STWOJune24

21/05/2024

There is no information with this view of Gresley ‘V3’ 2-6-2T No. 67646 which is thought to have been taken by Trevor Owen. It is coupled bunker-to-bunker with Stanier two-cylinder ‘4MT’ 2-6-4T No. 46239 on an RCTS rail tour – but where and when?

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16/05/2024

Swindon-allocated ‘8750’ class 0-6-0PT No. 3682 boasts a unique and distinctly ‘non-PC’ front numberplate, alongside a Collett tender wearing the BR lion-and-wheel emblem. Had someone in the foundry been making unauthorised plates?

Photograph from C.J.L. COLLECTION

14/05/2024

Countdown's on! Our printers are buzzing with activity, gearing up for the June issue. Haven't ordered your copy yet? No worries, you can grab one right here! https://bit.ly/STWOJune24

13/05/2024

Behind the scenes at our printers as we prepare for the June release! UK subscribers, keep an eye on your letterboxes this week; international subscribers, your copies will arrive a bit later. The new issue hits shelves and online platforms this Friday. Not ordered a copy yet? No sweat! Secure your June issue by pre-ordering here https://bit.ly/STWOJune24

12/05/2024

One for the weekend! 🚂

How neat and tidy the whole railway scene appears in this view of ‘K1’ 2-6-0 No. 62005 approaching the terminus at Richmond in Yorkshire. The station, and the branch from Eryholme, closed in 1969 but all the fine railway buildings, except the goods shed seen in this picture, survive in a variety of commercial, residential and leisure uses.

Photograph from the C.J.L. COLLECTION

10/05/2024

Excited? Absolutely. Just one week until the June edition of Steam World hits shelves and online stores. Our printers are bustling to craft our latest masterpiece. Huge thanks to our subscribers; UK folks, expect your copy by the end of next week, while overseas readers, your wait may be a tad longer. If you're not a subscriber, don't worry, you can still get your hands on a copy. Secure your June issue by pre-ordering here https://bit.ly/STWOJune24

09/05/2024

Most BR-built locomotives had short careers in traffic. Two ‘16XX’ class 0-6-0PTs stand out of use at Swindon Works. No. 1635 still carries the original BR ‘lion & wheel’ emblem and red-backed numberplate it would have had from new, and behind it, spark-arrestor equipped No. 1661 appears to have suffered a serious water-treatment mishap and is stained white with the chemical.

Photograph from the CJL COLLECTION

07/05/2024

Here is Fairford shortly before the withdrawal of passenger services in 1962. The ubiquitous ‘74XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 7412 has arrived from Oxford and the Fairford signalman is enjoying a joke with the crew.

Photograph from GERALD T. ROBINSON/C.J.L. COLLECTION

03/05/2024

How about we conclude the week with a photo from the September 14th 1963?

The Fireman trims the coal in the bunker as Collett ‘61XX’ 2-6-2T No. 6111 waits to depart from Chipping Norton with the REC ‘Chiltern 200’ railtour on September 14th 1963. Though this photograph is unmarked, it appears to be by Trevor Owen.

Photograph C.J.L. COLLECTION

01/05/2024

If you haven't got your copy of Steam World May 2024 yet, you're missing out! Don't fret, there's still time. Visit us online https://bit.ly/STWOMay24 or pop into store to grab yours. Priced at £5.80 plus postage. You won't be disappointed.

30/04/2024

North British ‘Glen’ 4-4-0 No. 256 Glen Douglas was given special treatment in 1959 and set to work on railtours and special excursions.

Photograph from the C.J.L. COLLECTION

29/04/2024

Let's wrap up Monday with a snapshot from Chris Leigh's collection.

Caledonian Railway 4-2-2 No. 123 was designed by Dugald Drummond and built by Neilson & Co in 1886. Preserved by the LMS it was returned to steam in 1959. Here, in the company of LSWR ‘T9’ 4-4-0 No. 30120 it headed a special to the Bluebell Railway and is thought to be at East Grinstead in this photograph. C.J.L. COLLECTION

16/02/2024

Dive into a wealth of historic railway articles to captivate your interest. Let's transport you back to the golden age of railways.

🚨New issue alert🚨 The March 2024 issue of Steam is now available. £5.80 plus postage buy your copy today https://bit.ly/STWOMARCH24

• A selection of lineside photographs by Martin Smith
• Glorious in green: Gavin Morrison shares some of his splendid photographs of A4s
• Two branch lines to Windsor – the story of railways that served, and still serve, Windsor
• Other royal stations – stations in Scotland and East Anglia that also have royal connections
• Richard Derry takes a look at Standard ‘5MTs’ that took on names associated with King Arthur
• Mallard’s speed record – remembered by the late LNER Test Inspector, Dennis Carling
• Seven Summer Saturdays – Don Benn recalls the southern end of the West Coast Main Line in 1963
• All in a spin at Crewe – turntables in the early 1960s
PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword

19/01/2024

Here's a little treat for the weekend 🚂

This Southern workhorse, Maunsell ‘S15’ 4-6-0 No. 30838. Running light engine, tender-first, possibly at Reading West, heading towards Basingstoke.

Photograph from CJL Collection

03/01/2024

Had it not been on the proposed route of the M25 motorway, the Westerham branch might have been preserved. It seems a great leap forwards from ‘H’ class 0-4-4T No. 31177 and two pre-Grouping carriages, to a 70mph motorway and perhaps that stark contrast is what caused the downfall of this and many other sections of railway.

Photograph from the CJL collection

06/12/2023

The Southern Region treated most of its named locomotives as mixed traffic types, though few were painted in mixed traffic livery. One that did carry BR lined black livery was ‘Schools’ 4-4-0 No. 30914 Eastbourne - but it would later revert to green.

Photograph from the CJL collection

20/11/2023

One of Chris Leigh's favourite Southern locomotives were the ‘H16’ 4-6-2Ts and that’s why he bought this slide off eBay, despite a complete lack of information.

Can you help? No. 30516 is apparently working a railtour (Special 2?) from an LSWR terminus – but where? The lower quadrant lattice post signal is a thing of beauty but its position above the signalman’s head reminds us a little of “The Ladykillers’!

Photograph from the CJL collection

15/11/2023

Spectators have spilled over into the down side goods yard at Staines Central on January 30 1965 to see ‘Battle of Britain’ 4-6-2 No. 34051 Winston Churchill pass with the great statesman’s funeral train, en route to Handborough for the interment at Bladon church.

Photograph from the CJL Collection

30/10/2023

Good morning! 😀 Bright and early this Monday morning, we share with you a photo from the CJL Collection. BR disposed of the lovely half-timbered Kidderminster station with indecent haste following ‘the discovery of timber defects’. It was said that the building had been designed for Stratford-upon-Avon but was diverted to Kidderminster when the original station there was destroyed by fire.

26/10/2023

A far cry from North Cornwall, as rebuilt ‘West Country’ 4-6-2 No. 34031 Torrington races past Raynes Park on the down fast, with a Bournemouth express, in a picture that looks like it might have come from the camera of Geoff Rixon, but is unmarked.

Photograph from the CJL Collection

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20/10/2023

⭐Happy Friday ⭐Steam World November 2023 is out now! Buy in store or online https://bit.ly/STWONov23 🚂

Steam World - taking you back to the great heyday of British Steam

• Reading Recollections
• Last Days Around Wellingboro’
• Locomotive metamorphosis: a guide to the BR steam Locos that ended their days looking different to how they’d been built
• Under the spotlight: Thompson’s ‘B2s'
• ‘4Fs’ on the Somerset & Dorset Railway
• Bridge to Engine Room: The early days of Ian Allan Publishing
• Life as a Wartime Clerk
• Waterloo in 1966
• Filming The First Great Train Robbery

PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword

15/10/2023

This picture came with no information at all. If you any any suggestions let us know in the comments! 😀The fireman takes a breather as Riddles BR Standard ‘4MT’ 4-6-0 No. 75062 appears to be banking a freight train, probably from Tebay to Shap summit on the West Coast main line.

Photograph from the CJL COLLECTION

13/10/2023

Steam World November 2023 on sale 20th October 2023. Buy in store or online. Pre order your copy today https://bit.ly/STWONov23

STEAM WORLD NOVEMBER 2023 ISSUE (on sale 20th October):

• Reading Recollections
• Last Days Around Wellingboro’
• Locomotive metamorphosis: a guide to the BR steam Locos that ended their days looking different to how they’d been built
• Under the spotlight: Thompson’s ‘B2s'
• ‘4Fs’ on the Somerset & Dorset Railway
• Bridge to Engine Room: The early days of Ian Allan Publishing
• Life as a Wartime Clerk
• Waterloo in 1966
• Filming The First Great Train Robbery

PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword

12/10/2023

Riddles ‘WD’ austerity 2-8-0 No. 90694 fitted with a buffer-beam snow plough stands inside an otherwise deserted shed. It carries a 55G (Huddersfield) shed code but is it inside its home shed? 🤔

Photograph from the CJL COLLECTION

02/10/2023

Judging by the smokebox inscription and the home-made front numberplate, this picture of Riddles BR Standard ‘5MT’ 4-6-0 No. 73029 at an unrecorded SR station (possibly Salisbury) would seem to date from the end of Southern steam, 55 years ago!

Photograph from the CJL COLLECTION

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27/09/2023

Have you got your copy yet? The latest issue of Steam World is now available in store or online £5.60 plus postage https://bit.ly/STWOOct23

• Somerset & Dorset Summer Saturdays
• Take in the atmosphere at Rowfant station
• Investigating the Ingleton Branch
• Under the spotlight: Lesser known classes of Southern Railway 4-4-0
• The best job on the railway, part four. John Palmer’s biography of Victor Michael Barrington-Ward draws to a close.
• Railtours on the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire
• Collett’s ‘Castles’ at 100
• 1955-1963 An Eight Year Adventure: Part 7
• Woodcock: The forgotten record-breaker
• The future of the Vale of Rheidol

PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword

27/09/2023

There was something very special about railtours in the 1960s, perhaps because every one was potentially the last over that line. On March 27 1965, the RCTS and Plymouth Railway Circle ran the ‘Exmoor Ranger’ to Ilfracombe and Halwill. The North Devon & Cornwall Junction Light Railway had already closed and special dispensation was required to run a passenger train over it. Here, Ivatt ‘2MT’ 2-6-2Ts Nos. 41206 and 41291 head the train, we think, near Meeth Halt. Sadly, the slide carries no information.

Photograph from the CJL collection.

24/08/2023

Norman Wright and photographer Clive Nicholls recently took a dream rail journey on a cloud of steam.

It was an experience that brought a smile to the faces of everyone we passed and to everyone on board the train run by specialists The Steam Dreams Rail Co. Read the article in full, plus see photos and videos of Clive and Norman's experience, simply click on the link https://bit.ly/STWOSteamDreams

Have you experienced travel on Steam Dreams? If you have, let us know in the comments how you found the experience.

19/05/2023

We have a brand new issue out today! Buy in store or online https://bit.ly/STWOJUNE23

You will find the following features:
• A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH IN 1950: Bob Poynter recalls the variety of steam locomotives to be seen at Plymouth’s GWR and SR stations in the 1950s
• PORTRAIT OF A ‘DUCHESS’: Printing historian John Hutchinson tells the story of Stanier ‘Pacific’ No. 46521 City of Nottingham
• STOP! LOOK BOTH WAYS: As a youngster, Martin Leech used the Chalford valley foot crossings as vantage points for photography
• TO NORTHERN REACHES: Colin Boocock recalls childhood journeys on the ‘Pines Express’
• DOWN TO THE SEA AT LOOE: Chris Leigh takes a holiday-season outing to one of Cornwall’s oldest branch lines
• COLLISION AT CHARFIELD: Greg Morse explains the circumstances which resulted in the three train pile-up at Charfield in 1928
• YORKSHIRE’S NAMED TRAINS: Gavin Morrison’s named train images
• LAST STEAM ON THE LYMINGTON BRANCH: Stephen Widdowson made several calls to the Lymington Pier branch as it transitioned from vintage 0-4-4Ts to BR Standard tank locomotives
PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword

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We have a brand new issue out today! Buy in store or online https://bit.ly/STWOJUNE23 You will find the following features: • A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH IN 1950: Bob Poynter recalls the variety of steam locomotives to be seen at Plymouth’s GWR and SR stations in the 1950s • PORTRAIT OF A ‘DUCHESS’: Printing historian John Hutchinson tells the story of Stanier ‘Pacific’ No. 46521 City of Nottingham • STOP! LOOK BOTH WAYS: As a youngster, Martin Leech used the Chalford valley foot crossings as vantage points for photography • TO NORTHERN REACHES: Colin Boocock recalls childhood journeys on the ‘Pines Express’ • DOWN TO THE SEA AT LOOE: Chris Leigh takes a holiday-season outing to one of Cornwall’s oldest branch lines • COLLISION AT CHARFIELD: Greg Morse explains the circumstances which resulted in the three train pile-up at Charfield in 1928 • YORKSHIRE’S NAMED TRAINS: Gavin Morrison’s named train images • LAST STEAM ON THE LYMINGTON BRANCH: Stephen Widdowson made several calls to the Lymington Pier branch as it transitioned from vintage 0-4-4Ts to BR Standard tank locomotives PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers’ letters and Crossword Enjoy!

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Steam World magazine is Britain’s finest and best-selling pre-1971 railway publication covering steam. This historical railway magazine includes details of trains, restoration projects, news, in-depth information and articles and glorious old and new photographs of notable engines, sheds, railways and other Steam railway related objects. Learn from the experts on steam railway history and celebrate the heyday of British steam with Steam World Magazine.

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