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.

Steam World

LET'S GO CAMPING - RAILWAY STYLE!

CALL ATTENTION • Editor Chris Leigh trawls the Steam World post-bag, updates some recent features and adds a few comments of his own

AN EAST ENDER'S VIEW OF STEAM • Bob Saxby longed to see rural branch lines… but he grew up in the East End, a world of suburban services and where London Transport reigned supreme

'CALEY 123' TO CALLANDER • Lorne Anton presents some long-lost photographs of a memorable day at Callander when ‘Caley 123’ arrived… oh, and Glen Douglas was there, too.

RAILROVER REMEMBERED • Living in Knebworth, David Percival hadn’t underlined many North Eastern Region engines so he decided to rectify that in the summer of 1960 by investing in one of the then-new Railrover tickets

SPECIAL DELIVERY • Colin Boocock was entrusted with overseeing delivery of two locomotives to the then new Bluebell Railway.

GREAT SHOT

PREPARING A 'CASTLE' • Chris Leigh presents a sequence of pictures by Carl Stratmann showing the routine of preparing a GWR 4-6-0 for work.

THE OTHER BARRY SCRAPYARDS • Not all the steam locomotives scrapped at Barry were purchased by Woodham Brothers, as Richard Derry explains

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

STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

INDUSTRIAL MAGIC • In search of steam, Eddie Bobrowski had never visited the South Wales coalfields before. He decided to put that right Photographs: Eddie Bobrowski

A TOAST TO TOBY PART 2 • Chris Leigh and Richard Foster continue their journey into the Fens to track the course of the famous Wisbech & Upwell tramway. Chris explained how a childhood fascination with Rev. Awdry’s Toby led to a life-long interest in this quirky East Anglian backway in Part 1 of this series (SW442, April 2024)

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