BRITAIN'S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL

December 2024 Journal

Faithful in their Fashion - three colour pages of the Midland/LMS Class 2 4-4-0 locomotives.

'Only in America' - Mike Norman upholds the legacy of Timothy Hackworth from the early design of steam locomotives.

The Lake Lock Rail Road: The first public railway? - Anthony Dawson looks at an early industrial railway in Yorkshire which might hold a special claim to a place in history.

The 'Castles; that never were - Nigel Mildwater considers Great Western Railway boiler development from the 'Stars' to the 'Kings'.

Mickle Trafford - Tony Robinson describes 'a Cheshire junction of many manifestations'.

China Clay - colour photographs by Paul Aitken

Wiltshire Ways - archive photographs of lesser-known locations.

A visit to Stoke in May 1932 - some North Staffordshire Railway locomotives from the Anthony Dawson collection.

Capital Gains - and Capital Losses - steam from the Simon Lathlane collection reflecting on the variety to be found at London's main line termini.

The North British Railway and the Admiralty at Port Edgar - Alistair F. Nisbet shows the railway connection with a Naval establishment on the Firth of Forth.

Principal works of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1890 - described by Jeffrey Wells.

Noted at Newport - three different locomotive classes photographed in colour by Tommy Tomalin.

Cross-country via Bolton - colour spread by Tom Heaviside of Class 47 haulage of Anglo-Scottish long-distance trains.

From Hurstbourne and Andover to Kimbridge Junction and the Longparish branch: Part One - Bruce Laws revisits a London & South Western Railway secondary route in Hampshire.

The railway at Shireoaks, Worksop and Rhodesia - Nottinghamshire signal boxes visited by Peter Butler.