Steam Days

Steam Days is a monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. Each issue covers the six regions of British Railways: Western, Southern, London, Midland, Eastern, and Scottish, with the occasional article on Irish railways and the industrial scene. These well illustrated articles in the magazine cover the history of the railways of Britain from the early days of the 1800s through to the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968.

Steam Days

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Diversion! … via the ‘Old Road’ • Colin Boocock took his camera to record diverted trains on two weekends in 1960 when engineering work closed the Bournemouth main line at New Milton.

To Sharpness for scrap • Peter Kerslake recalls three visits to Sharpness to see the relatively short-lived satellite locomotive breaking operation of Swindon-based scrap merchant Cooper’s Metals.

Marylebone station and the GCR London Extension From birth to a fall from grace • Opened 125 years ago as the last main line to reach London, Andrew Britton considers the terminus and its routes, both wholly GCR and joint, and particularly the post-nationalisation steam era.

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Crewe Works pilot locomotives The steam classes • Roger Griffiths and John Hooper offer an introduction to the dedicated fleet and work of pilot engines that served Crewe Works, as well as shining the spotlight on the comings and goings of the various steam classes within the allocation in L&NWR, LMS and BR days.

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Around Scotland and back to Dorset via Hull • Travelling by train and undertaking what to most people would be a near unfathomable route around Scotland and northern England, Trevor Lambert continues his 19-day spotting extravaganza of August/September 1963 and returns home via the North Eastern Region.

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