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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Timed through Kettering • Andrew James considers performances on the various routes and contrasting services that served Kettering.

West of England Rail Rover 1960 A Plymouth circular via Halwill Junction, Ifracombe and Dulverton • Venturing into Southern Region territory as part of a wide-reaching day trip, Leslie R Freeman circumnavigates Devon on everyday services on 1 June. All photographs courtesy Transport Treasury.

STEAM DAYS In Colour 212: Rails around Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth • An area filled with much-loved seaside destinations, we look at the main routes into Lowestoft Central and Yarmouth South Town stations, Great Eastern Railway lines, as well as the coastal Norfolk & Suffolk Joint line of the GER and M&GN, which notably enjoyed high season service by the ‘Holiday Camps Express’. With East Anglia subject to widespread dieselisation, it was the need to cover additional summer-dated traffic that attracts our focus, as for a while steam haulage proliferated, and the fact that the locality was also subject to the loss of a section of main line, that into Yarmouth South Town as BR opted to move all Yarmouth passenger traffic to Vauxhall station, which at times was already busy with holiday traffic from the Midlands.

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The &Knott End Railway • Locally promoted and independent railway until the Grouping of 1923, Stanley C Jenkins MA examines the 11¼ mile branch line from the West Coast main line at Garstang & Catterall through to Knott End-on-Sea on the east bank of the River Wyre, across from Fleetwood.

Spot the Difference • Congratulations to the winners of May’s ‘Spot the Difference’ competition

Gloucester to Oban 1962 … with steam all the way! • The outward journey of a memorable family holiday 60 years ago is recalled by Gordon Kirkby, the transition from steam was all around, and yet the trip of some 618 miles, via London, proved to be entirely steam-hauled.

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