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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Great Northern and North Eastern travels in Yorkshire • Recollecting outings from Bradford in the 1962-64 period, Richard Dangerfield encountered the old order and new on the ex-GNR and NER lines inYorkshire.

CIÉ steam variety in the late 1950s • Despite early dieselisation of some services, the steam locomotive fleet of Ireland’s nationalised railway remained varied into the mid and late 1950s, with the inherited fleets so often made up of classes that were few in number. David Anderson delves into his photographic collection and offers a pre-Nationalisation backdrop.

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London toGlasgow City-to-City 175 years • November 1849 saw the Caledonian Railway’s new Glasgow terminus open at Buchanan Street with through trains to and from London (Euston). Ian Hopkins and colleagues from the LNWRS offer an overview of the evolution and operational aspects of Euston-Glasgow services.

The Princetown branch – an appreciation • Just 7½ miles north of Tavistock Junction on the edge of Plymouth, the junction station of Yelverton was the starting point for branch line journeys to the high ground of Dartmoor. Peter Kerslake remembers his visits with affection.

Surprises at Parkstone • Colin Boocock recalls a number of surprises that greeted him when watching trains at Parkstone station in the early 1950s.All photographs were taken in early 1952 by the author when he was 14 years old, unless credited otherwise.

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