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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A whirlwind Scottish shed bash: 1965 • Leaving Kent on the afternoon of Easter Tuesday 1965 and with the transition from steam well advanced in Scotland, Utrick W R Casebourne used overnight Anglo-Scottish trains to undertake a 2½ day round-trip to central Scotland that took in no less than 14 active steam sheds.

Push-pull locomotives of the LNER and its British Railways’ successors • Introduced to reduce costs through increased efficiency, Eric Stuart and John Macnab focus on the motive power used for push-pull on the LNER, as well as its constituent companies and post-1948 work as part of the Eastern, North Eastern and Scottish regions.

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STEAM DAYS In Colour 221: Coal by rail for Ham Halls power station

Recalling Bitton in the 1950s – a photographic appreciation • With time between trains, Chris Gordon Watford set about recording the now preserved intermediate station on the Midland Railway’s Mangotsfield to Bath line.

West of England Rail Rover 1960 Devon branches and home via Bodmin and Padstow! • The diary writings of Leslie R Freeman for the afternoon of Friday, 2 June and throughout Saturday, 3 June conclude a week of 1,485½ miles of rail travel, the Tiverton, Hemyock, Bodmin (General) and Bodmin (North) branches traversed before return to London from the extremity of the North Cornwall line. Diary notes and all photographs appear courtesy of Transport Treasury.

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