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BackTrack September  2024

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BRITAIN'S LEADING HISTORICAL RAILWAY JOURNAL

September 2024 Journal

BackTrack September 2024Cambrian Times - Three pages of Gavin Morrison's photographs of steam on the Cambrian main line and coast line.

Dumfries shed in BR steam days  - chronicled by Douglas McNaught.

A Manx Odyssey in 1963: Part One - a vist to the Isle of Man with photographs by Geoff Sheldon and descriptions by Mark Higginson.

Leicestershire's Railways - a survey of the county by Stephen Roberts.

'JSG' in Glos - a few finds by John Spencer Gilks on his photographic explorations in Gloucestershire.

This was Grantham - five pages of colour photographs of steam at this once important East Coast Main Line centre.

Kelsey Hill Sidings - Phil Mathison tells the tale of four railways and two docks in Hull.

Modernisation Plan Diesel Multiple Unit services: Part One - Stephen G. Abbott outlines their introduction under BR's 1955 plan.

Cavan & Leitrim Finale - colour spread of this Irish narrow gauge system photographed in colour by Trevor Owen.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Cotton Town Stations - their lives and times recorded by Jeffrey Wells.

The Frenze Estate Railway - a Norfolk agricultural operation described by Alistair F. Nisbet.

What's special about the 4-4-0s? - a personal reflection of these locomotives by Michael H.C. Baker

Nancy Dawson and the 'Thames Clyde Express' - John Cuthbert tells of of a young girl's involvement in the Blea Moor derailment in 1952.