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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The Solway Junction Railway and its bridge over troubled waters • John Macnab and Kevin Tiller consider the direct route from Cumberland that made a mile-long crossing of the Solway Firth to reach Annan, and thence onward to the West Coast main line.

Northumberland’s steam locomotive graveyard • Trevor Gregg remembers his schoolboy visits to the Hughes, Bolckow & Co Ltd scrapyard at North Blyth.

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The Hawkhurst branch – an appreciation • A desire to photograph Southern Region country stations for railway modelling inspiration brought Chris Gordon Watford to this former South Eastern Railway route in the early 1950s, his trip and its photographs driving this overview.

Merthyr Tydfil’s railways, their development and decline • Local deposits of coal, limestone and iron ore gave rise to heavy industry and the birth of railways in Merthyr, Roger Malyn delivering a story beyond eras, across 220 years from the first successful use of a steam-hauled train in the world, in 1804, through to the last trainload of domestic coal to run in Britain.

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