SLS Journal index 2006 to 2010

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Journal 866 November/December 2010

241 - Society Column
244 -Obituaries.
245 - The 2010 Christmas Quiz
246 - TheStephenson Photograph Collectionat 30
253 - John Henry Adams – Part 4
262 - Anniversary of Joseph Locke’s death
263 - The ‘Teploparovoz
267 - Orion - A Review of a Practical Restoration
269 - Stephenson Photograph Collection (photographs)
273 - travelling by ‘Thumpers’ 2000-2004
276 - Northumbrian Idyll(Now available as a taster read in PDF format)
280 - Clun Castle
281 - Time to Remember …?
282 - What a find
284 -What, Where, When?
285 - Two Mystery Photographs – Solved?
287 - First Day Cover for ‘Jack the Station Cat’
288 - Homage to the Stephensons
289 - Book Reviews
294 -SLS Diary
298 - North Staffordshire Railway - colour plates
299 - Stephenson Photograph Collection Lists

Front Cover:Class 156 DMU 156 428at Manchester Oxford Road with the 13.16 to Liverpool Lime Street, 1 September 2009 Photo taken by Malcolm Snowball

Journal 865 September/October

196 - Society Column
199 - Arthurs, Nelsons & Schools Finale
200 - John Henry Adams – Part 3
205 - An SLS Special Last train – in miniature
207 - Tasmania’s West Coast Wilderness Railway
212 - New Home for ‘Plates’
215 - A ‘Knotty’ Revival
217 - Manchester Area Then (photographs)
219 - Manchester Area Now (photographs)
221 -Obituaries
228 - Threlkeld Mining Museum & Quarry
229 - Found in the Library - 5
230 - Woodlesford c1910
230 - Book Reviews
233 - Editor’s Postbag
236 -What, Where, When?
236 -SLS Diary
240 - Changing Times

Front Cover:-Preserved LMS Pacific 6201 Princess Elizabethpassing Morpeth North Level Crossing on the East Coast Main Line with ‘The Great Britain III’ special on its way from Edinburgh to King’s Cross, 14 April 2010. Photo by Malcolm Snowball.

Journal 864 July/August

152 - Society Column
155 -Obituaries.
156 - The 2010 Annual General Meeting
157 - AGM Weekend 2010
162 - John Henry Adams – Part 2
169 - Found in the Library - 4
170 - GWR at 175 (photographs)
178 - Experiences by train 2009
184 - Editor’s Postbag
192 -What, Where, When?
193 - Book Reviews
195 -SLS Diary*

Front cover image:Restored former GWR 2-6-2T 5199, on loan from the Llangollen Railway, drifting out of Cheddleton Tunnel towards Leekbrook Junction on the Churnet Valley Railway with 15.25 ex Kingsley & Froghall train, 15 July 2009.Brian Dotson

*Errata - regrettably the date of the visit to the Bishop's Castle Museum was wrongly given - It was on Wednesday 8 SEPTEMBER and not October as stated on p195.

Journal 863 May/June

107 - Society Column
110 –Obituaries.
110 - John Henry Adams – Part 1
117 - The Royal Family and train travel
118 -What, Where, When?
118 - News in Brief
124 - Memories from 1952
128 - Steam in the North East (photographs)
130 - A Mystery from 1939 – Solved!
132 - Jet Leads & Lags – The Story Continues
134 - Two Mystery Photographs
135 - An Enigmatic Electric
140 - The Society’s Finances after a Century - Some Random Thoughts
141 - News from Ireland
142 - Found in the Library – 3
143 - Lichfield City Station 1930-1939
144 - Editor’s Postbag
145 - Book Reviews
151 - Memories of Steam in Ireland (photos)

Front Cover:With Wild Boar Fell as a backdrop, LMS Pacific, 6201 Princess Elizabeth powers south on the climb to Ais Gill summit, 19 July 2003. Photo by Andrew Smith. NB - This slide produced a second consecutive win for Andrew Smith in the John Morris transparency Competition held at the Newcastle upon Tyne Centre December 2009 meeting.

Journal 862 March/April

46 - Society Column
52 -Obituaries.
53 - Centenary Weekend
61 - The New Vice Presidents
63 - The Prince, Manchester & Tornado
65 - A Narrow Gauge Order That Never Was
69 - The 2009 Christmas Quiz
70 - Steam on the Redhill-Reading Line
72 - SLS Midlands ‘Hush-Hush’ Forum
74 - Midland Exports via Goole
75 - Southern Scenes (photographs)
77 - tracking a Canadian Stephenson - A transatlantic Quest
82 - The Perrygrove Railway
84 - The Locomotive Naming That Never Was
87 - Editor’s Postbag
94 - Book Reviews
100 - Abergavenny in the Snow (photographs)
101 - From the SLS Collection (photographs)
102 - The Wheels Locked
102 - News in Brief
104 -SLS Diary

Front Cover: Pioneer Class 4-car DMU 222018 at Platform 2, Derby Midland station, with Voyager 222032 just in view at Platform 1 with 09.35 Newcastle upon Tyne – Bristol Temple Meads, 26 August 2008. MalcolmSnowballll.

Journal 861 January/February 2010

1 - Society Column
6 -Obituaries
8 - An Early Memento of the Society
10 - On Writing a Biography of the Stephensons
15 - delayed by the Dead
19 - Another Link with Our Past
20 - he Manufacturers Street Railway Company
22 - The ‘Cam Era Relived (photographs)
24 - Darroch of Gourock
26 - Reflections on the SLS/MLS ‘Whitby Moors’ tour, 1965/2007
30 - ‘Cam’ Special 2009 Style
33 - Editor’s Postbag
36 - Book Reviews
42 -What, Where, When?
43 -SLS Diary

Front Cover: The ‘SLS Special’ with two panniers, No 9600, sporting the original SLS headboard, and 9466, both impatiently blowing off steam as they wait for the signal at Kidderminster to rejoin the rail network for the return to Tyseley Warwick Road up the steeply graded Old Hill route, 14 November 2009. Brian Dotson (Note - this photo' is included in theCentenary page)

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Journal 860 November/December 2009

240 - Society Column
245 -Obituaries
247 - 1959 – A Look Back to 50 Years Ago
247 - Steam on the ‘Watercress Line’ (photo)
248 - York Shed - 1909
248 - Darlington Built Pacifics
251 - Worcester - 1909
259 - Steam Locomotive Efficiency 259
265 - Thought – Beyond 2009
267 - The Christmas Quiz
269 - Snippets from the ‘Journal’ - 1919 & 1929
271 -What, Where, When?
272 - Orion amongst the ‘Big Boys’ (photo)
273 - Gladstone on the Bluebell Railway in 1982 (photo feature)
275 - SLS Specials (photo feature)
277 - The 100 Club (photo feature)
279 - A Century of Change
292 - Decade of Progress?
298 - Jet Leads and Lags
303 - 100 MPH! (photo)
305 - Editor’s Postbag
309 - Book Reviews
313 -SLS Diary

Front Cover:Tanfield Railway Gala Weekend, September 2008. Haydock Foundry built (1874) 0-6-0WT Bellerophon with three coaches and Furness Railway 0-6-0 20 on the other end of the train (not in picture) at Andrew’s House. Arriving from Sunniside is 1948 built Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0ST Sir Cecil A. Cochrane, 13 September 2008. Photo - Malcolm Snowball

Journal 859 September/October

195 - Centenary Weekend - York
196 - Society Column
198 -Obituaries
199 - Press Launch of Grand Central trains Adelante
201 - Great, Grand …and Father of all Garratts
205 - North to South 2008 Perambulations
213 - Snippets from the ‘Journal’ - 1949 & 1979
215 - Destination Keswick
216 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (photos)
218 - The Elusive Mr Bennett
224 - The Railway Club
225 - Grand Prize for the High Level Bridge
228 - Editor’s Postbag
231 - Book Reviews
236 -What, Where, When?
237 -SLS Diary

Front Cover image: Preserved LMS ‘Black Five’ 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier at York with ‘The Scarborough Spa Express’, 23 July 2009. David Rodgers

Journal 858 July/August(As revised 27 July)

135 - Society Column
137 -Obituaries
139 - Society AGM 2009
141 - The ‘SMJ’
141 - News in Brief
141 - Rugby Testing Station: Superheating
142 - AGM Weekend 2009
146 - AGM Weekend Postscript
147 - Old Habits Die Hard! (photo)
147 -Special Headboard for the SLS(photo)
148 - The GEC Gearless Project
156 - Stephenson’s Works Closes to the Public
158 - Snippets from the ‘Journal’ – 1989 & 1999
160 - ‘North Eastern Mountaineer’ – a personal view
162 - 'The Shakespeare Route (photos)
163 - Streamliner Reborn (photos)
164 - Irish Subjects – R.J. Payne (photos)
166 - ‘The Shakespeare Route’ (photos)
168 - Rugby Testing Station: Superheating experiments
172 - Editor's postbag
176 - Book Reviews
181 - 50 Years On
186 - Eastleigh 100
189 - Streamliner reborn (photos)
191 -What, Where, When?
184 - Editor’s Postbag
193 -SLS Diary
194 - Centenary Events
Inside Back Cover - Accommodation List, York

Front coverimage - Direct Rail Services (DRS) Class 47 47712Pride of Carlisle on display in the yard of Eastleigh Works as part of the ‘Eastleigh 100’ celebrations, 25 May 2009. Brian Dotson

NB The above mailing also included a complimentary copy for member's of the new SLS booklet - "A Centenary Celebration 1909 - 2009"

Journal 857 May/June

91 - Society Column
93 -Obituaries
94 - Shildon begins the Centenary Year Celebrations
97 - Promontory, 1869
99 - Royston Junction - My Reminiscences
107 - The triumph of an A4 Pacific
112 - Shildon Naming Ceremony (photos)
114 - Found in the Library - 2
116 - Railway Interest Today
121 - Snippets from the 'Journal' - 1959
123 -The West Coast Main Line - Then and Now
126 - Editor's Postbag
127 - Book Reviews
110 - London & North Western Observation Saloon
133 -What, Where, When?
133 -SLS Diaryand Centenary Year Events
134 - 'A Uniquely British tradition' (photo)

The cover photograph featured Members in front of Class 66 diesel 66957 after it had been named Stephenson Locomotive Society 1909-2009 at Locomotion, Shildon, County Durham on Monday 30 March 2009. Brian Dotson Nameplate supplied byNewton Replicas

Journal 856 March/April

46- Society Column
52 -Obituaries
53 - The Christmas Quiz
54 - North East Corridor
58 - Found in the Library - 1
61 - A Railway Idyll
63 - Snippets from the ‘Journal’ - 1939
65 - A Mystery from 1939
85 - News in Brief
88 - The New at NRM, York (Photos)
67 - 2008 John Morris Competition, Newcastle upon Tyne - Andrew Smith
69 - tracks into the Future
74 - Editor’s Postbag
79 - Book Reviews
84 -What, Where, When?
86 -SLS Diary
90 - Centenary Year Events

Front Cover: -Winning entry for 2008 in the annual John Morris Competition of the Newcastle upon Tyne Centre. In the evening light BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 76079 and LMS Class 5 4-6-0 45407 prepare for departure from Carlisle Citadel station with the southbound 'Christmas Dalesman' on Wednesday 21 December 2005. Andrew Smith

Journal855 January/|February2009 included -

1 - Society Column
4 -Obituaries
7 - For a while, the Crocodile
13 - Draughting
18 - Something from '59
22 - Freight Contrasts - Then and Now (Photos)
24 - The Atlantic Coast Express - 2008
28 - News in Brief,What, Where, When?& Editor's Postbag
27 - Locomotion Steam Gala
36 - Book Reviews
44 -SLS Diary

Front Cover:Locomotive Type Z 0-8-0+0-6-0T 3349 built by Kitson-Meyer, Leeds in 1909 on display at the Santiago Railway Museum, Quinta Park on 29 November 2008. This rack and pinion fitted locomotive was one of nine locomotives built to work the transandine Railway from Los Andes in Chile to Mendoza in Argentina. Chile had three and Argentina six of these locomotives. This locomotive was withdrawn in 1971 and is one of two now preserved in Chile, the other example being at Los Andes. Brian Dotson

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Journal854November/December 2008included:-

221 - Society Column
225 -Obituaries
225 -The Christmas Quiz
226 -News in Brief
228 -They Missed the Hole
235 -Observations on travels in 2007
242 -Severn Valley Railway Autumn Steam Gala (Photos)
244 -In the Steps of Sir Sam
246 -Engines and Men - 12
246 -Editor's Postbag
253 -What, Where, When?
254 -Book Reviews
259 -Stock News
260 -SLS Diary
263 -Stephenson Photograph Collection
265 -From the 'Journal' - sixty years ago ...

Front Cover:Restored Merchant Navy Pacific 35028Clan Linehurries through Pewsey with an ‘Orient Express’ (VSOE) on 28 May 2008. Ken Mumford

Journal 853Sep/Oct 2008 included:-

177 - Society Column
179 -Obituaries
181 - Southern Electric Classification
187 - Working the Lickey!
190 - Memories of an IrishRail-tour
197 - News in Brief
198 - Photos
200 - Gorton Foundry’s Last Beyer-Garratts now 50!
201 - News from Down Under
202 - Engines and Men - 11
203 -What, Where, When?
204 - Editor’s Postbag
212 - Preserved Steam on the Main Line Book Reviews
215 - Stock News
218 -SLS Diary

Front Cover: Newest steam locomotive, A1 Steam trust’sTornado, in works grey livery, moves under its own steam at the Darlington Hopetown Works during 1-3 August 2008. Martin Green

Journal 852 July/Aug2008 included:-

133 - Society Column
136 - Society AGM 2008
136 -Obituaries
137 - AGM Weekend 2008
139 - Outdoor Visits Reports
140 - Doncaster Locomotive Works 1949-1955 Part III
145 - North Eastern Snippet
146 - Early Railways Conference
147 - Southern Electric Part 2
154 - Locomotive Exchanges of 1948 (Photos)
156 - Dalziel of the Midland
170 -What, Where, When?
171 - Book Reviews
173 - Stock Changes
176 -SLS Diary

Front Cover:A4 Pacific 60019Bitternnear Lamesley, north end of the Tyne Yard, with a special from Kings Cross to Newcastle upon Tyne on 1 March 2008. Special steam hauled from York to Newcastle upon Tyne & back. Malcolm Snowball

Journal 851 May/June2008 included:-

89 - Society Column
92 -Obituaries
93 - A Ryecroft Shunt Duty
96 - Southern Electric - 1
103 - Royal Scots – Inside Big Ends
106 - The Midlands Electric Forum
110 - The Creeping Shepherd
111 - Big Liz
114 - From the ‘Journal’ – sixty years ago…
115 - Doncaster Locomotive Works 1949-1955 Part II
123 - Editor’s Postbag
126 - Ebbw Vale Reopening
127 - Stock Changes
129 - Book Reviews
130 -What, Where, When?
132 -SLS Diary

Front Cover:First week of midday Grand Central Sunderland to Kings Cross train passing the site of Hart station, just north of Hartlepool with 43084 leading on 5 March 2008. The trackbed of the former Castle Eden branch can be seen on the left. Martin Green

Journal 850March/April 2008 included:-

45 - Society Column
50 -Obituaries
53 - Doncaster Locomotive Works 1949-1955. Part 1
62 -What, Where, When?
63 - The Christmas Quiz
65 - A Glimpse of Norway
66 - The Tatra Express – Slovakia & Poland (Photos)
68 - Military Railways in World War I
74 - Editor’s Postbag
78 - Book Reviews
81 - Stock News
85 - News in Brief
86 - Engines and Men - 10
87 -SLS Diary

The front coverpicture showedrestored former Southern Railway 4-6-0 850Lord Nelsonhurrying through Sandling on a ‘Golden Arrow’ special on 16 June 2007. Photo by Mike Dodd

Journal 849 January/February 2008 included.

Contents
1 Bruce Nathan – An Appreciation
2 Society Column
5Obituaries
7 SLS Locomotive Nameplates
9 Something from the Past
11 Stretch Tanks
20 An Introduction to ‘Inside’ Swindon Loco Drawing Stores, 1948/49
22 Century Amusement Park (Photos)
24 The Beyer Peacock Partnership
30 Great Central Memories
35 Escaped crab on 7.57 gives claws for concern
35 Editor’s Postbag
36 Book Reviews
41 Engines and Men - 9
42What, Where, When?
42SLS Diary

Front Cover:SS 5 002 25kV 50Hz electric locomotive plinthed in the Century Amusement Park, Zhengzhou, China in October 2005. Taken by Chris West

Above 2008- Below 2007

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Contents of the November/December 2007 issue included:

In Elgarland - Reports of Society visit to Severn Valley Railway.
Century Amusement Park. A Chinese park with a narrow gauge railway.
Baltic electrics – France and Italy.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
Railway to Tin Town – a reservoir railway in Derbyshire.
Engines and Men – SNCF Pacifics.
The Hawk Project – Former BR diesel 10800 used as test loco by Brush. ‘You could see the lion didn’t like it’ – the BR lion and wheel emblem faced backwards.
South Eastern Memories.
Photo feature of London transport steam locomotives.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture showed the unusual pairing of6024 King Edward I and Battle of Britain 34067 Tangmereabout to depart Bristol Temple Meads for Plymouth and Par on 24 August 2007. Photo by Jim Canham.

Contents of the September/October 2007 issue included:

Reports of Society visits to Hunslet Barclay, Brighton and walk on the Stainmore railway.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
Railway to Tin Town – a reservoir railway in Derbyshire.
Wath Boiler Explosion – September 1907.
Summaries of papers on steam locomotive resistance and the efficiency if the As-built Bullied Pacifics. (Full papers inmembers only sectionof SLS website).
North Eastern Boundary Stones at Saltburn.
Robert Gourdin – SNCF chauffeur (fireman).
Photo feature of the Midland Route to Manchester.
Colour illustrations of Liverpool & Manchester Lion and reproduction Planet at Liverpool Road, Manchester.
Book and DVD Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture showed former GNR(I) VS 4-4-0 207 Boyne passing Dundalk on return excursion to Belfast, 26 May 1964. This was the last blue engine in service and was latterly used on these Tuesday and Thursday excursions. Photo by John G. Dewing.

Contents of July/August 2007 issue included -

Reports of Society Annual General Meeting and weekend visits
Digital Opportunities and Threats
The County Forum – Report of meeting of experts to discuss GWR County Class 4-6-0s
30 Years On (1976-2006) - A review of developments on provincial railways in Lancashire.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
1883 and 2003 pictures of Lewes station, Sussex
Book and DVD Reviews, Stock News and Society matters

The front cover picture showed K1 2-6-0 62005 on the Three Dales rail tour of 12 May 2007 with SLS headboard. This tour marked the 40th anniversary of the tour organised by the SLS in 1967 with the same locomotive. Photo by Carl Gors

Contents of the May/June 2007 issue included:

30 Years On (1976-2006) - A review of developments on provincial railways in Lancashire.
Experiences at the Rugby Testing Station.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
To the York Station – A Journey, with diversions.
Preserved Italian Steam Locomotives at Tirano.
Photo feature: Steam Variety at Shrewsbury.
Correspondence from members,
Book and DVD Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture showed Virgin Cross Country 47 711 at Blackpool North on 5 June 1999 and was taken by Shaun Courtnage. Contents of the March/April 2007 issue include:

A Computer Simulation of a Steam Locomotive – a run behind a Lancashire & Yorkshire @High Flier’ 4-4-2 between Manchester and Liverpool.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
The GWR County Class 4-6-0.Lineside Nostalgia.
Answers to the Christmas Quiz.
A New Rail Guide
Virgin trains Apache Advert.
Photo feature: Memories of Steam in Ireland.
Correspondence from members,
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture marks the end of the lease of the Class 442 electric units on South West trains. It shows unit 2406 at Waterloo on 10 October 1998 and was taken by Bruce Nathan

Contents of the January/February 2007 issue included:

Celebrations in Mid Wales. 50 years since the last train on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway under British Railways auspices.
Big Express 4-6-0 Locomotives. Comparison of performance between King, Lord Nelson, original Royal Scot and rebuilt Royal Scot.
A Glimpse of Imperial Indian Railways in 1946.
Lineside Nostalgia.
Motive Power Unit No. 0.
Extract from Journal 60 years ago on the then centenary of the West Coast Route over Shap.
Colour photos of the GySEV (Austria- Hungary) today.
Photo feature of Feltham in the 1960s
Correspondence from members,
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture restored Beattie 2-4-0 well tank 30585 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on its first public on 8 October 2006. It was taken by J.M. Jarvis

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Contents of the November/December 2006 issue included:

Crewe North's Pacifics. Memories of footplate journeys between Euston and Crewe on the 'Midday Scot' and from Crewe to Perth on the night sleepers.
One Kind of Mastodon - The Curious Case of the 4-10-0.
Modernising the West Coast Main Line - A View from Northampton.
The Yasukuni Shrine Tokyo, where a Japanese 2-6-0 used on the 'Death Railway' in Thailand is exhibited.
An SLS Irish Tour in 1950 over the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway behind a Crewe-built 1876 0-6-0ST.
Photo-feature of the East Kent Railway - in its Independent days as well as part of British Railways, Southern Region.
A Christmas Quiz.
Correspondence of the Mauritius Government Railways.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture was of restored LNER V2 2-6-2 4771 Green Arrow at York on a 'Scarborough Spa Express' in June 2006. It was taken by & © Neville Knight.

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The 150th anniversary of Portuguese Railways is celebrated in this issue with a short article and photographs of Portuguese steam in the centre spread and on front cover.
Orion and Friends. The Society's 9½inch gauge Webb Compound visited events at Henley on Thames and Crewe.
Predicting Boiler Behaviour and its Influence on Locomotive Performance - A computer programme to calculate boiler conditions on the main line. Comprehensive feedback on this article has been added to themembers only sectionin the Yahoo Groups. To read more about Predicting Boiler Pressure sign up to the group pages.
Crewe North's Pacifics. Memories of footplate journeys over Shap.
Zeno's and Other Arrows or Food for Thought on First Great Western.
Engines and Men. Richard Hardy recalls his first footplate journey in 1936.
Reports on visits to the Evesham Vale Light Railway and a walk along the former trackbed of the Midland Railway from Caton to Lancaster.
Animal on the Line.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

The front cover picture showed Portuguese Railways (CP) 4-6-2 552 (Henschel 19881/1924) entering Monte Gordo with the afternoon train from Villa Real de Santo Antonio to Barreiro (Lisbon) on 12 September 1961. It was taken by Bruce Nathan © Bruce Nathan.

Contents of the July/August 2006 included:

This issue is the 100th produced by the present editor, Bruce Nathan, and the 50th anniversary of printing by W.J. Ray (now Spectrum Print Direct).

Report on AGM Weekend visits to 'The Railway Age', Crewe and the Churnet Valley and Foxfield Railways. W.J. Ray - Our Printers for 50 Years.
Locomotives of the Mauritius Government Railways
Prototype Diesel Electric Locomotive 10800
The Trieste Railway Museum
Photo features on the early years of preservation and Cork -.2006.
Southern Steam in the 21st Century.
Itinerant traveller - 2005. Notes on journeys made during the year.
Engines and Men. Richard Hardy's photograph and comments on drivers with whom he had ridden.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

May/June 2006

Itinerant traveller - 2005. Notes on journeys made during the year
Predicting Boiler Behaviour and its Influence on Locomotive Performance Comprehensive feedback on this article has been added to themembers only sectionin the Yahoo Groups. To read more about Predicting Boiler Pressure sign up to the group pages.
Locomotives of the Mauritius Government Railways
From the Journal 40 Years Ago - The New Premier Line
Photo features on South Hetton Coal Company Tank LocomotivesGlamorganandHaverhil, and Memoires of the 1950s
Engines and Men. Richard Hardy's photograph and comments on drivers with whom he had ridden.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters

2005 Photographic competition winners -(Images on separate page) The winning picture in the colour section of the competition was by Martin Green and shows a South African Class 24 2-8-4 leading a 19D Class 4-8-2 0n a Knysna-George mixed train crossing the viaduct at Kaiman's River in April 1963. The winning picture in the black & white section of the competition was by David Holmes and shows former Caledonian Pickersgill 4-4-0 54482 at Georgemas Junction on 3 May 1961. The loco had just worked the 3.35pm train from Thurso. A BR/Sulzer (later Class24) diesel is in the background under the bridge. March/April 2006

January/February 2006

Locomotives of the Mauritius Government Railways
Desiros in Service
The SLS 2005 Photographic Competition - Report and winning entries in colour and black & white. (see captions below).
Where to begin? - Zero points in the USA.
Engines and Men. Richard Hardy's photograph and comments on drivers with whom he had ridden.
Book Reviews, Stock News and Society matters.

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