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.

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North Wales and Chester memories • From childhood beach visits to post-graduate commuter

Early preservation: 1964 • Turning back the clock some 60 years, John H Bird offers some preservation news.

The Hundred of Hoo Railway For Port Victoria and Allhallows-on-Sea • An SER route born of rivalry and desire for continental traffic, Chris Gordon Watford tells of how all this came to naught, and subsequent efforts to boost passenger receipts and create a resort of Allhallows-on-Sea were likewise largely unsuccessful and finally led to the sparsely-populated Hoo Peninsula and Isle of Grain falling from the passenger map; and yet freight traffic has continued to evolve and Grain remains rail-connected to this day.

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Alnwick in1964 A portrait of a country terminus • A fondness for steam-hauled local lines saw G L Pallister choose Alnwick for a ‘regional dissertation’ as part of his university degree, which led to many visits to Alnwick and a greater understanding of the role that the railway to Alnmouth played within its community.

The engine sheds of Thornton Junction • A key location of Fife coalfield railway operations, between 1854 and 1967 a series of three engine sheds was provided here for the servicing of steam locomotives, Roger Griffiths and John Hooper providing details of the facilities throughout the steam era, as well as considering the locomotive allocation up to July 1933 when the LNER opened the final shed on the site.

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