Steam World

Steam World is Britain's best selling historical railway magazine. Covering the magical times when steam railways were the lifeblood of the country. It features first-hand accounts from drivers, firemen, BR managers and enthusiasts alike. Featuring magnificent photography from the fifties and sixties, it will bring back wonderful memories coupled with inside information of what it was really like to work, travel and play on the world's best railway.

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READING RECOLLECTIONS • Reading was a spotter’s dream location in the 1950s and 1960s. Paul Cooper recalls why making a visit to Berkshire’s county town was always worth the effort

LAST DAYS AROUND WELLINGBOROUGH • BR apprentice Michael Beeton was in a prime position to record the last days of the Northampton & Peterborough Railway as he shares a few memories of his railway days

SHINING THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE ‘B2s’ • Richard Foster suggests that the ‘B2’ 4-6-0s show that Edward Thompson could design an attractive ‘rebuild’ when he wanted to

LOCOMOTIVE METAMORPHOSIS • Following our look at Thompson’s ‘B2s’, Peter R. Cooper presents a guide to other BR steam locomotives that ended their days looking quite different to how they’d been built

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‘4Fs’ ON THE S&D • They may not be the first locomotives to come to mind when you think about the Somerset & Dorset but the humble ‘4F’ played a vital role in keeping it moving. Richard Derry tracks down the Fowler 0-6-0s known to have called the S&D home

BRIDGE TO ENGINE ROOM • What was it like working for Ian Allan Ltd in the ‘swinging Sixties’? Chris Leigh recalls his start in railway publishing in the days when ‘The World’s largest transport publisher’ was pretty much the world’s only transport publisher

LIFE AS A WARTI ME CLERK • Mary Setchfield celebrated her 100th birthday recently. With help from son Frank, she tells the story of her short railway career in the LNER’s accounts office

WATERLOO IN 1966 • Working at London Waterloo, Andy Bishop was in the perfect position to record the last full year of steam at this classic London terminus

PLATFORM • send your letters to Steam World, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton South gate, Peterborough PE2 6GX or steamworld@choicemag.co.uk

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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED • Bob Gwynne considers the railway jargon familiar to most of us but that might leave general public bemused…

FILMING THE FIRST GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY • 2023 might be the anniversary of The Titfield Thunderbolt but Nelson Poots re-calls what it was like to make a classic railway film that continues to live in ‘Titfield’s’ shadow.

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