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INDEX TO BACKTRACK Volume 30 (2016)

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 30

Accidents

Bridges And Viaducts

British Railways

Caledonian Railway

Cambrian Railways

Diesel Traction

Electric Traction

Great Central Railway (Inc. MSLR)

Great Eastern Railway

Great Northern Railway

Great Western Railway

Highland Railway

Industrial Railways

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Livery And Insignia

Locomotives (Miscellaneous)

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

London & North Eastern Railway

London & North Western Railway

 

London & South Western Railway

London Midland & Scottish Railway

Metropolitan/ Metropolitan District

Midland Railway

North British Railway

North Eastern Railway

North Staffordshire Railway

Permanent Way

Personalities

Publicity And Advertising

Railway In Court

Shipping Services

Signalling

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

Southern Railway

Stations And Locations

Tunnels

Wartime

Weather

ACCIDENTS

Charing Cross station roof, The saga of 646 (November)

Demise of Sir Francis Goldsmid MP...and others 182 (March)

Mind the Gap 226 (April)

Stockton & Darlington Railway: Fatal accidents between 1825 and 1845 750 (December)

When things go wrong 571* (October)

 

Birkenhead Joint line 132* (March)

Boundary markers 560* (September)

 

BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS

Banavie 237 (April)

Bridges of Newark and Bottesford branch 496 (August)

Bridging the Gaps 50* (January)

Forth, By road and rail across the 398 (July)

Under and Over 614* (October)

 

BRITISH RAILWAYS

'75000s' on the Southern Region 431 (July)

Birmingham South Suburban 68* (February)

Blackpool in 1967 37* (January)

Bolton Exodus 424 (July)

Class 3 2-6-2 tanks 32* (January)

Class 47s Stratford-style 277* (May)

Closure of the Potteries Loop Line 38 (January)

Colourful Salisbury 644* (November)

Didcot 'Fly' 438 (July)

High Speed Trains 736* (December)

Let's go Glasgow Electric, 580 (October), 656 (November)

Lickey Incline in Transition 454 (August)

Manchester Victoria as it was 4* (January)

Modernising the North Eastern Region 652 (November)

Murphy's Law: Class 84 393 (July)

'Nearest Run Thing' - London Marylebone 144 (March), 216 (April)

Smithy Wood branch 232 (April)

Somerset & Dorset Joint Line, The closure of 304 (May), 332 (June)

Spray Train, The 143 (March)

Steam v Diesel 461 (August)

Tiverton Junction 60* (January)

Tyneside electric train working 516 (September)

Wednesbury winter's night 724 (December)

Western Region PW Diesel Shunters 494* (August)

 

Bullion thefts from railways 278 (May)

 

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

Caledonian mixture 324* (June)

Crieff & Methven Junction Railway 490 (August)

Locomotives for North West Scotland 12 (January)

Steady Climb, A: The story of Beattock and its famous incline 708 (December)

Wet Review, The 528 (September)

 

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS

'Dukedogs' on the Cambrian 475* (August)

Oswestry - Railway town of the Welsh Borders 19 (January), 168 (March)

Sharp, Stewart locomotives 478 (August), 616 (October)

 

Crieff & Methven Junction Railway 490 (August)

 

DIESEL TRACTION

Class 47s Stratford-style 277* (May)

Colourful Salisbury 644* (November)

High Speed Trains 736* (December)

Western Region PW Diesel Shunters 494* (August)

 

ELECTRIC TRACTION

Bachelet, Emile, and the dawn of 'Maglev' 440 (July), 594 (October)

Let's go Glasgow Electric 580 (October), 656 (November)

Morecambe, Rails to 198 (April)

Murphy's Law: Class 84 393 (July)

Tyneside electric train working 516 (September)

 

Freight trains in 1920s 153 (March)

Furness lines, Focus on the 476* (August)

 

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (inc. MSLR)

For Heavy Duty - 2-8-0 locomotives 599* (October)

Kirton Lime Siding signal box 186* (March)

Marylebone station and its suburban services 144 (March), 216 (April)

 

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY

Cambridge, Wings over 316 (May)

 

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY

Bridges of Newark and Bottesford branch 496 (August)

GN Leeds–Bradford line 502 (August)

Lincolnshire signalman 701 (November)

Lingering in Leicestershire (GN/LNW Jt.) 452* (August)

 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

51 years of Western express running 678 (November)

Bentley Heath, Observations at 260* (May)

Cheltenham and Gloucester 231* (April)

Developments at Paddington and Bristol 552 (September)

'Dukedogs' on the Cambrian 475 (August)

Freight trains in 1920s 153 (March)

'Grange' 4-6-0s 96* (February)

London Paddington 25* (January)

Never a dull moment (Reading shed) 326 (June), 756 (December)

Severn Tunnel: 19th century aspects 406 (July), 484 (August)

Somerset's railways 600 (October)

Swindon Railway Works 290 (May)

Tales from a South Wales footplate 248 (April)

Upgrading God's Wonderful Railway 208 (April)

West Wales 286* (May)

 

Halts, The opening of railway 1930-5 374 (June)

 

HIGHLAND RAILWAY

Locomotives for North West Scotland Snaigow and Durn 733 (December)

 

Horseracing, Going 188 (March)

 

INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS

Black Country industrial 570* (September)

Rope-worked inclines 349 (June)

Slate quarry engines 311* (May)

Wagonways and the law 134 (March)

Wheldale steam renaissance 81 (February)

 

Isle of Man Railway 352* (June)

Kendal & Windermere Railway; Early years of the 'Gem of Railways' 715 (December)

 

LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

East Lancashire lines 388* (July)

Huddersfield and Halifax, Deliver us to 608* (October)

 

LIVERY AND INSIGNIA

Apple Green 535* (September)

Boundary markers 560* (September)

Colourful Salisbury 644* (November)

 

LOCOMOTIVES (Miscellaneous)

Across the Midlands 748* (December)

Compressed air locomotives: 20th century 84 (February)

Scottish Rambling 196* (April)

Sometimes an alternative will do 613* (October)

Spaced out 28 (January)

Steam v Diesel 461 (August)

Trevor Owen's World of Steam 416* (July)

 

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY

Six-coupled tanks 214* (April)

 

LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

Apple green 535* (September)

A4, Finale of the 631 (October)

B1 4-6-0s 314* (May)

B17 4-6-0s - A different class 242 (April)

Calvert spur, The 362 (June)

Holiday literature for Scotland 272 (May)

Locomotives for North West Scotland 12 (January)

Newcastle, Focus on 421* (July)

Rules, Helping Hands and Short Straws 357 (June)

 

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway: Christ's Hospital station 698 (November)

 

LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Bridges of Newark and Bottesford branch 496 (August)

Derbyshire day out (Ashbourne branch) 734* (December)

Huddersfield and Halifax, Deliver us to 608* (October)

Kendal & Windermere Railway 715 (December)

Lingering in Leicestershire (GN/LNW Jt.) 452* (August)

LNWR via Market Harborough 527* (September)

Morecambe, Rails to 198 (April)

Penrith: A bygone junction 586 (October)

 

LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Closing the gap: 150 years of the Staines–Wokingham line 536 (September)

Go South West 480* (August)

Royal 'Greyhound', The 572 (September)

S15 Class 160* (March)

Six-coupled tanks 214* (April)

Southampton & Dorchester Railway 116 (February)

Southern 0-4-4 tanks 544* (September)

 

LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY

Calvert spur, The 362 (June)

Camden shed 288* (May)

Crewe Works 241* (April)

Holiday literature for Scotland 272 (May)

Locomotives for North West Scotland 12 (January)

'Royal Scots' as they used to be 164* (March)

 

Maps, Putting railways on the 372 (June)

Men at work 562* (September)

Mersey Railway: Clearing the air 692 (November)

 

METROPOLITAN/ METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Coals to Kensington 70 (February)

District Railway steam 522 (September)

 

MIDLAND RAILWAY

Lickey Incline in Transition 454 (August)

Morecambe, Rails to 198 (April)

 

Night must fall 672* (November)

 

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY

Banavie 237 (April)

Forth, By road and rail across the 398 (July)

Locomotives for North West Scotland 12 (January)

NBR six-coupled 700* (November)

Portobello: By two routes to London 76 (February)

Wansbeck wander, A 100 (February)

Wet Review, The 528 (September)

 

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

Hull 675* (November)

Penrith: A bygone junction 586 (October)

 

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY

Clare, Charles 1832-1882 685 (November)

Closure of the Potteries Loop Line 38 (January)

 

PERMANENT WAY

Past and present Track Formation 138 (March), 266 (May)

Origins, Diagnoses and Historical Prevention of Track Failures 668 (November)

 

PERSONALITIES

Bachelet, Emile, and the dawn of 'Maglev' 440 (July), 594 (October)

Bourne, J. C. 500 (August)

Clare, Charles 685 (November)

Fuller, Flight Lieutenant Aidan 283 (May)

Lomax, Eric: The railwayman of war and peace 412 (July)

Owen, Trevor 158* (March), 416* (July)

 

PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING

Holiday literature for Scotland 272 (May)

Trip to Oxford 380 (June)

 

RAILWAY IN COURT

Mind the Gap 226 (April)

Passenger perils 634 (October)

Wagonways and the law 134 (March)

 

Railway jewel robberies 624 (October)

Railway Regulation Act 1844 262 (May)

Rolling Stock: Wheeltapper's Lot, A 48 (January)

Rope-worked inclines 349 (June)

 

SHIPPING SERVICES

In the water 436* (July)

Train Ferries 661 (November), 742 (December)

 

SIGNALLING

Barnetby and Wrawby Junction 224* (April)

Kirton Lime Siding signal box 186* (March)

Lincolnshire signalman 701 (November)

Wednesbury winter's night 724 (December)

 

Somerset & Dorset Joint Line, The closure of 304 (May), 332 (June)

Southampton & Dorchester Railway 116 (February)

 

SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY (inc. SER and LCDR)

Charing Cross station roof, The saga of 646 (November)

Southern 0-4-4 tanks 544* (September)

 

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

Allhallows, Farewell to 59* (January)

Down South 682* (November)

Go South West 480* (August)

New lines for the Southern 340 (June)

S15 Class 160* (March)

Six-coupled tanks 214* (April)

Southern Airways 52 (January), 175 (March)

Southern 0-4-4 tanks 544* (September)

 

STATIONS AND LOCATIONS

Allhallows branch 59* (January), 340 (June)

Ashbourne branch 734* (December)

Banavie 237 (April)

Barnetby 224* (April)

Beattock 708 (December)

Bentley Heath 260* (May)

Birkenhead Joint line 132* (March)

Birmingham south suburban 68* (February)

Blackpool 37* (January)

Blaenau Ffestiniog 548* (September)

Bolton 424 (July)

Calvert 362 (June)

Cambridge 316 (May)

Cheltenham and Gloucester 231* (April)

Christ's Hospital 698 (November)

East Lancashire 388* (July)

Glasgow 580 (October)

Halts, The opening of railway 1930-5 374 (June)

Huddersfield and Halifax 608* (October)

Hull 675* (November)

Isle of Man 352* (June)

Leeds–Bradford 502 (August)

Liverpool 368* (June)

Llandudno Junction 123* (February)

London Charing Cross 646 (November)

London Marylebone 144 (March), 216 (April)

London Paddington 25* (January)

Manchester Victoria 4* (January)

Morecambe 198 (April)

Newcastle 421* (July)

North West England 105* (February)

Oswestry 19 (January), 168 (March)

Penrith 586 (October)

Portobello 76 (February)

Potteries Loop 38 (January)

Ramsgate 340 (June)

Reading 326 (June), 756 (December)

Scottish ramblings 196* (April)

Smithy Wood branch 232 (April)

Somerset 600 (October)

Staines–Wokingham 536 (September)

Swindon 290 (May)

Tiverton Junction 60* (January)

Tyneside 516 (September)

Wallingford branch 438 (July)

Wansbeck branch 100 (February)

Wednesbury 724 (December)

West Wales 286* (May)

Wimbledon–Sutton 340 (June)

Windermere 715 (December)

 

Stockton & Darlington Railway: Fatal accidents between 1825 and 1845 750 (December)

Strikes, Go-Slows and Stoppages: the 1912 coal strike 564 (September)

 

Tickets of Joint Railways 690 (November)

 

TUNNELS
Severn Tunnel: 19th century aspects 406 (July), 484 (August)

Under and Over 614* (October)

 

Vandalism on the railways 108 (February)

 

WARTIME

Calvert spur, The 362 (June)

Cold War, The (1940) 6 (January), 90 (February)

Lomax, Eric: The railwayman of war and peace 412 (July)

Through a Glass Darkly: Railways and the wartime blackout 296 (May)

 

WEATHER

Cold War, The (1940) 6 (January), 90 (February)

Wet Review, The 528 (September)

 

Wheeltapper's Lot 46 (January)