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

CHANGEOVER DAY

ATTENTION CALL

STRANGER AT YORK • COLIN BOOCOCK paid a visit to York in 1955 – and another in 1958. Here he shows some of the locomotives that excited him, many of which were strange to his Southern eyes.

As I WAS GOING TO ST.IVES • Childhood holidays in Cornwall always included at least one day on the beach at St. Ives, enabling CHRIS LEIGH to watch the trains as well as the ocean.

BRIAN MORRISON DIES AT 93 • Railway photographer Brian Morrison who died aged 93, on April 30, is remembered by Nigel Harris Part 1

PICK ’N’ MIX • Chris Leigh selects the best of the steam subjects from some recent Ebay slide purchases.

GREAT SHOT

THE BEST JOB ON THE RAILWAY • John Palmer looks at the life and career of Victor Michael Barrington-Ward, the first holder of the post of Operating Officer for British Railways, and the policy decisions that influenced him and his successors as they managed operations of the railways in Britain after Nationalisation in 1948.

TYNE DOCK'S BR STANDARD ‘9FS’ AT WORK…. • As a follow up to his photo-feature showing Consett Steel Works traffic from Tyne Dock Verdun Wake dips into his archive again to show a wider selection of duties by Tyne Dock's Riddles ‘9Fs.’

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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LIVING BY THE BRIGHTON LINE • Colin Packham's family was involved with railway to Brighton from its earliest days. He tells their story…

THE DE-FROCKED ‘DUCHESSES’ • Having featured the run-down of the ‘Duchesses’ in recent issues of Steam World, RICHARD FOSTER presents a selection of images from their pre-war heyday.

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