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BackTrack November 2024

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BRITAIN'S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL

November 2024 Journal

BackTrack November 2024Steaming through Hampshire - a colour spread of a variety of steam at locations through the county.

Time Travellers from 'Bay Town' - Michael Blakemore considers some of the railway journeys booked by residents of this Yorkshire coast village in 1918/9.

The Brighton's Other Main Line to London - Jeremy Clarke tells the story of the LBSCR's route via Balham and Selhurst to Brighton.

Crewe! This is Crewe! - Robin Barnes looks at the early years of this famous railway town.

Freight over Shap 1965 - Alan Taylor tracks the volume of freight traffic over the West Coast Main Line with colour photographs by Gavin Morrison.

The Midland Grand Hotel  - as visited by Peter Butler during the years of its transformation.

Atlantic Tanks - four colour pages of GNR, GCR and NBR 4-4-2 tank locomotives.

On the tracks of the Furness Railway - archive photographs of this railway in the North West of England.

A look at some Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway signal boxes - photographed and described by Michael Marshall.

The BR Class 02 diesel-shunters - Nemesis of the LYR 'Pugs' -  as described by Stef Niewiadomski

Gretton: A rural Northamptonshire station - visited by Peter Butler

Steam to Burry Port - via Queensland - Darryl Grant reveals how an articulated Fairlie locomotive travelled to Australia and then back to South Wales.

Goose Hill Junction and Normanton - A West Yorkshire junction recalled by Peter Butler

The Waterloo and Whitehall Railway - Alistair F. Nisbet tells the story of an unfilled line to be built under the Thames.