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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Caerphilly Castle – GWR centenarian • In August 1923 the first GWR ‘Castle’ class emerged from Swindon Works. Andrew Wilson explains how few people at the time realised the influence that the design would have on the drawing offices of the ‘Big Four’.

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Douglas to Peel: Station-by-station • The first public railway on the Isle of Man, 150 years have now passed since the Douglas to Peel route opened, and nearly 55 since it closed – Andrew Kennedy takes us along the line.

STEAM DAYS in Colour 224: West Country milk traffic via the Southern

The Stour Valley railway and associated lines • Between the Norwich and Cambridge main lines and where Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex meet, Stanley C Jenkins offers an historical overview of the railway network that evolved from the Colchester, Stour Valley, Halstead & Sudbury Railway.

Places to visit this summer

Heading for the Scottish hills • With a passion for walking and for recording locomotives hard at work, A G S Davies was naturally drawn to the more testing territory of western and northern Scotland, with these memories centring on his Scottish rail travels between 1960 and 1964.

Tail Lamp Readers’ Letters