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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Crewe Works coppersmith – Les Jenks: LMS pre-war times • A town of trains, as Crewe celebrates 180 years since the arrival of the Grand Junction Railway Andrew Kennedy offers a glimpse into LMS operations at Crewe Works on the Steel Works site, the words of Les Jenks enabling us to step back 87 years to when his career began as an apprentice coppersmith.

Frodingham workings and shed observations • Opened in 1932 to replace inadequate facilities at Keadby, Roger Griffiths and John Hooper offer the bigger picture in terms of the activities of Frodingham engine shed and particularly its role in servicing the incoming and outgoing traffic needs of the local steel industry, which led to countless visiting locomotives.

223: Edinburgh and East Lothian (East Coast) steam

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Recalling the Ventnor West branch • A much loved Isle of Wight Central Railway line that served for a little more than 52 years, Andrew Britton enriches the history of the route with memories of staff from Southern Railway and British Railways days.

Before the National Collection – the early years of steam preservation • Leonard Rogers considers locomotive preservation before the creation of the British Transport Commission in 1948.

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