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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Travels with unmodified Bulleid Pacifics • With their sighting always a highlight of spotting days on the Oxted lines, Nick Hodges went on to seek out runs behind nine of these locomotives in the last two years of their BR use.

Leominster, Ludlow and Clee Hill sub-sheds and their duties • All seeing continued use into the British Railways era, Steve Bartlett looks at these rarely visited facilities on or near the GWR & LMS Joint main line between Hereford and Shrewsbury.

Time to get out and about in the UK

In Colour 213: The versatile Fowler ‘Jinty’ 0-6-0Ts

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Building up the National Collection The BTC years: 1948-62 • Inheriting a fleet of heritage locomotives set aside in pre-Grouping and ‘Big Four’ days, Leonard Rogers reveals how the British Transport Commission had quite a challenge with this – continuing to build the collection and safeguard as complete a locomotive history as possible, while also increasing public display, which included pre-Grouping liveries returning to the main line, and new museums in Swindon and Clapham.

The East London Line • Served by a multitude of railways across the years, Eric Stuart presents a historical overview of the railway through the Thames tunnel, a route taken over by the Metropolitan Railway but used by British Railways through trains into the mid-1960s, and now returned to the national network.

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