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INDEX TO BACKTRACK Volume 29 (2015)

Issue

Month

Page Numbers

1

January

1-64

2

February

65-128

3

March

129-192

4

April

193-256

5

May

257-320

6

June

321-384

7

July

385-448

8

August

449-512

9

September

513-576

10

October

577-640

11

November

641-704

12

December

705-768

 

 

 

Major Subject Areas In Volume 29

Accidents

London & North Eastern Railway

British Railways

London & South Western Railway

Caledonian Railway

London Transport

Diesel Traction

Metropolitan/ Metropolitan District Railways

Electric Traction

Midland Railway

Great Central Railway (Inc. MSLR)

North British Railway

Great Eastern Railway

North Eastern Railway

Great Northern Railway

Permanent Way

Great Western Railway

Personalities

Highland Railway

Publicity And Advertising

Industrial Railways

Rolling Stock

Irish Railways

Shipping

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Signalling

Liveries & Insignia

South Eastern & Chatham Railway (Inc. SER And LCDR)

Locomotives (Misc.)

Southern Railway

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

Stations And Locations

London Midland & Scottish Railway

Wartime

ACCIDENTS

Ais Gill 46 (January)
Collisions in fog 74 (February)
Quintinshill 278 (May), 468 (August)
Severn Bridge 164 (March)
Shropshire Tragedy 378 (June)
 

Atmospheric railways 312 (May)
Autocars and Doodlebugs 519 (September)
 

Bridges and Viaducts: Severn Bridge 164 (March)
Bristol & South Wales Union Railway and the New Passage ferry 550 (September)
 

BRITISH RAILWAYS
ACV lightweight diesel trains 688 (November)
Around 50 years ago on the Met/GC line 342 (June)
Brightlingsea branch closure 526 (September)
By train to Somerset in the 1960s 536 (September)
Class 40s on the East Coast Route 480* (August)
Class 40s: Overweight and underpowered? 196 (April)
Class 56 Freight 548* (September)
Class 9F 2-10-0s 160* (March)
Consett, The climb to 250 (April)
'Deltic' Dawn and A4 Sunset 398 (July)
Great Eastern Class 90s 153* (March)
In and out of Waverley 424* (July)
Llanwern iron ore trains 380* (June)
Long-distance Commuting over the years 664 (November)
On Holiday for History 21 (January)
Putting New Heart into Industry: the 1955 Modernisation Plan 260 (May)
Tilbury Riverside - the final day 699 (November)
West London Line freight at Kensington Olympia 624 (October)
Windsor Link, 25 years of the 708 (December)
 

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY
Development of railways to North West Scotland
218 (April), 356 (June), 452 (August)
Quintinshill disaster
278 (May), 468 (August)
Two CR branch trains 636* (October)
 

Cambrian Railways: Mid-Wales line 682* (November)
 

DIESEL TRACTION
ACV lightweight diesel trains 688 (November)
Class 40s on the East Coast Route 480* (August)
Class 40s: Overweight and underpowered? 196 (April)
Class 56 Freight 548* (September)
Diesel days in Ireland 172* (March)
In and out of Waverley 424* (July)
 

Direct Pneumatic Propulsion 470 (August)
 

Early railway artefacts in north Midlands 6 (January)
 

ELECTRIC TRACTION
Great Eastern Class 90s 153* (March)
Orpington shed, Life at 114 (February)
Tyne & Wear Metro 497 (August)
Westinghouse, The woes of 228 (April)
 

Fire and Rescue 249* (April)
Fish, Working the 124 (February)
Furness Railway: 'Cleator' tanks 337 (June)
 

Golf and the railways 582 (October), 719 (December)
 

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (inc. MSLR)
Around 50 years ago on the Met/GC line 342 (June)
For Meritorious Conduct (The Watkin Medal) 28 (January)
Woodhead: Light at the end of the Tunnel? 178 (March)
 

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY
Hadleigh, A cleaner at 734 (December)
In Great Eastern territory 438* (July)
Liverpool Street station pilots 32* (January)
 

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
Keighley, Railways of 592 (October)
Lincolnshire 533* (September)
 

Great North of Scotland Railway: Working Aberdeen's Harbour Railway 408 (July)
 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
Afternoons out of School 616 (October)
Aspects of GWR improvements 1929-33 54 (January)
Aspects of the Severn Bridge Railway 164 (March)
Bristol & South Wales Union Railway and the New Passage ferry 550 (September)
Gooch, Daniel: In the days of 536 (September)
Malmesbury branch 327 (June)
Oxford Union 479* (August)
Pannier tanks 42* (January)
GWR route north 300* (May)
Shrewsbury, Focus on 544* (September)
Western railcars, Going by 210* (April)
Western railtouring 423* (July)
Wiltshire's railways 712 (December)
 

HIGHLAND RAILWAY
Development of railways to North West Scotland 218 (April), 356 (June), 452 (August)
Highland revisited 174* (March)
'Jones Goods' in Inverness 462 (August)
Stations for the Lairds 102 (February)
 

Hull & Barnsley Railway: Hull's Alexandra Dock 674 (November)
Hull & Selby Railway 87 (February)
 

INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS
Early railway artefacts in north Midlands 6 (January)
How green was my valley 614* (October)
Yorkshire coal 4* (January)
 

IRISH RAILWAYS
Diesel days in Ireland 172* (March)
'North Atlantic' coaches of the LMS NCC 420 (July)
Up the Junction 658 (November)
 

Junction, Up the 658 (November)
 

LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY
Blackburn Railway 1845-1858
366 (June), 432 (July)
Blackpool line 68 (February)
Huddersfield-Penistone branch 672* (November)
Long live the 'Lanky' 416* (July)
Ribble Valley line 304* (May)
Steam railmotors - service practice in West Lancashire 142 (March)
 

Lancaster & Carlisle Railway, The formative years of the 646 (November), 750 (December)
 

LIVERY AND INSIGNIA
Eastern Blue 736* (December)
Sign language 52* (January)
Smarties from the Tube 644* (November)
 

LOCOMOTIVES (Misc.)
Atmospheric railways 312 (May)
Compressed air locomotives 760 (December)
Direct Pneumatic propulsion 470 (August)
Lapage, R. Herbert, and his locomotives 731 (December)
London Midland miscellany 132* (March)
Phantom Crampton locomotive 415 (July)
 

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY
Brighton Moguls 608* (October)
Three Southern Saloons 634* (October)
 

LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY
Horwich success story (2-6-0s) 374* (June)
'North Atlantic' coaches of the LMS NCC 420 (July)
'Royal Scot', The return of the 134 (March)
Willesden shed 724* (December)
 

LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
A2 Pacifics: the Peppercorn productions 352* (June)
Eastern Blue 736* (December)
Eric Bruton's A4 Pacifics 655* (November)
King's Cross, Steam supreme at 224* (April)
LNER Publicity 474 (August)
 

LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY
Bournemouth, Railways of 80 (February)
Three Southern Saloons 634* (October)
 

LONDON TRANSPORT
Metropolitan memories 566 (September)
Smarties from the Tube 644* (November)
 

Mail robberies on the railways 154 (March)
Men at work 122* (February)
 

METROPOLITAN/ METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAYS
Around 50 years ago on the Met/GC line 342 (June)
Metropolitan memories 566 (September)
Stations to Stanmore 34 (January)
 

MIDLAND RAILWAY
3F and 4F 0-6-0s 96* (February)
Ais Gill accident revisited (1913) 46 (January)
Aspects of the Severn Bridge Railway 164 (March)
Calverley & Rodley 14 (January)
Ilkley, Rails through 240 (April)
Keighley, Railways of 592 (October)
Leicester West Bridge, Goods train to 482* (August)
Napsbury 758 (December)
Stonebridge branch 271 (May)
 

Midland & South Western Junction Railway 712 (December)
Milk trains 623* (October)
 

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY
Building the 'Top Rail Journey in the World' 100 (February)
Development of railways to North West Scotland
218 (April), 356 (June), 452 (August)
Devon Valley Railway 291 (May)
Edinburgh's South Suburban Railway and its 'sideshows' in the Victoria era 696 (November)
Greasy Johnny and the Great Tay Whale 744 (December)
Waverley Route, Return to the 728* (December)
 

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
Hull & Selby Railway 87 (February)
Ilkley, Rails through 240 (April)
 

North Staffordshire Railway steam 610* (October)
 

PERMANENT WAY
Do you need a crossing to make a point? 116 (February)
Newcastle District: The Railway Civil Engineer's Fulfilment
306 (May), 346 (June)
 

PERSONALITIES
Drummond, Dugald - The 'Down Under' Myth 70 (February)
Gooch, Daniel 601 (October)
Graham, George - Stockton & Darlington Railway 539 (September)
James, William 361 (June)
Lapage, R. Herbert 731 (December)
Lenin: 'From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station' 236 (April)
Nash, Charles 691 (November)
Watkin, Sir Edward 28 (January)
Westinghouse, George 228 (April)
 

PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING
Golf, Railways and 582 (October), 719 (December)
LNER Publicity 474 (August)
On Holiday for History 21 (January)
 

Railway in Court: Carrying the Goods 684 (November)
Railway Passengers Assurance Company 444 (July)
Railways and Class 203 (April)
Robberies on the railways: Charles Nash and the railway theft gangs 691 (November)
 

ROLLING STOCK
Club Train 1889-93
484 (August), 557 (September)
'North Atlantic' coaches of the LMS NCC 420 (July)
Sleeping Cars - Aspects of their history and development 108 (February)
Three Southern Saloons 634* (October)
Severn Bridge Railway 164 (March)
 

SHIPPING
Club Train 1889-93 484, 557 (September)
Hull's Alexandra Dock 674 (November)
Working Aberdeen's Harbour Railway 408 (July)
 

SIGNALLING
Lincolnshire signalling 508* (August)
Taff Vale Railway signal boxes 442* (July)
Things you don't see now! 564* (September)

 

Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway: The Exmouth-Cleethorpes holiday train 739 (December)
 

SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY (inc. SER and LCDR)
Club Train 1889-93
484 (August), 557 (September)
Kentish ramblings 458* (August)
London Cannon Street 388* (July)
Maunsell Moguls 274* (May)
Three Southern Saloons 634* (October)
 

SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Kentish ramblings 458* (August)
Maunsell Moguls 274* (May)
Memories of a Nine Elms Fireman
392 (July), 587 (October)
 

STATIONS AND LOCATIONS
Aberdeen 408 (July)
Blackpool line 68* (February)
Birmingham New Street 324* (June)
Bolton to Blackburn
366 (June), 432 (July)
Bournemouth 80 (February)
Branches in all parts... 288* (May)
Bredbury Junction 743* (December)
Brightlingsea 526 (September)
Bristol 550 (September)
Calverley & Rodley 14 (January)
Chester General 25* (January)
Consett 250 (April)
Devon Valley 291 (May)
Edinburgh 424* (July), 696 (November)
Folkestone Harbour 580* (October)
Hadleigh 734 (December)
Helsby 113* (February)
Huddersfield-Penistone 672* (November)
Hull: Alexandra Dock 674 (November)
Hull to Selby 87 (February)
Ilkley 240 (April)
Integrated public transport 184* (March)
Keighley 592 (October)
Kensington Olympia 624 (October)
Kent 458* (August)
Lancaster & Carlisle
646 (November), 750 (December)
Lincolnshire 533* (September)
London Cannon Street 388* (July)
London King's Cross 224* (April)
London Liverpool Street 32* (January)
Malmesbury 327 (June)
Mid-Wales line 682* (November)
Minehead branch 536 (September)
Napsbury 758* (December)
Newcastle District
306 (May), 346 (June)
North Wales branch lines 214* (April)
North West Scotland
218 (April), 356 (June), 452 (August)
Oxford 479* (August)
Quintinshill 278 (May), 468 (August)
Ribble Valley 304* (May)
St. Neots 186* (March)
Shrewsbury 544* (September)
Tilbury Riverside 699 (November)
Waverley Route 728* (December)
West Highland line 100 (February)
West Riding 516* (September)
Wiltshire 712 (December)
Windsor Link (Salford) 708 (December)
 

Stockton & Darlington Railway: A Catalogue of Errors 539 (September)

Taff Vale Railway: Signal boxes 442* (July)
Tunnels: Woodhead - Light at the end of the Tunnel? 178 (March)
Tyne & Wear Metro 497 (August)

Victorian station master and his staff c1885 138 (March)
 

WARTIME
Britain's railways and the Great War Food Crisis
403 (July), 491 (August)
Inherit the Peace: The 1918 Armistice and afterwards
282 (May), 426 (July)
Lenin: 'From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station' 236 (April)

Water troughs 92* (February)

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