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INDEX TO BACKTRACK Volume 31 (2017)

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 31

Accidents

Bridges And Viaducts

British Railways

Caledonian Railway

Cambrian Railways

Diesel Traction

Electric Traction

Great Eastern Railway

Great North Of Scotland Railway

Great Northern Railway

Great Western Railway

Industrial Railways

Irish Railways

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Liveries And Insignia

Locomotives (Miscellaneous)

London & North Eastern Railway

London & North Western Railway

London & South Western Railway

 

London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

London Midland & Scottish Railway

London Transport

Metropolitan / Metropolitan District Railways

Midland Railway

North British Railway

North Eastern Railway

Permanent Way

Personalities

Publicity And Advertising

Railway In Court

Rolling Stock

Shipping Services

Signalling

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

Southern Railway

Stations And Locations

Tunnels

Wartime

 

ACCIDENTS

Dinting Viaduct 658 (November)

Waterloo (Liverpool) 548 (September)

 

BRIDGES and VIADUCTS

Dinting 658 (November)

Solway 280 (May)

 

BRITISH RAILWAYS

By Diesel Train 452* (August)

Carnforth and Cumbria 288* (May)

Class 56s on the coal 260* (May)

Crieff lines no more 560 (September)

DP2 - A Remarkable Prototype 470 (August)

Glasgow Blue Trains 626 (October)

Iron ore for Llanwern 708* (December)

Ministers of Transport 1919-1969: 'Rather Unprincipled Persons' 537 (September), 630 (October)

Namings and Ceremonies 110 (February)

'Night Ferry', The 388, 391 (July)

North Eastern Region freight in the early 1960s 202 (April)

Oxford and Cambridge object to a closure 332 (June)

Ryecroft Reminiscences 502 (August), 603 (October)

Stainmore Route, The fate of the 739 (December)

Swindon-built DMUs in Scotland 99 (February)

Wednesbury Winter's Night 102 (February)

West Coast Main Line Electrification 644 (November)

 

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

Crieff lines no more 560 (September)

South of the Solway 280 (May)

 

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS

Morfa Mawddach in limbo 178* (March)

Via Three Cocks Junction 324* (June)

 

Curious aspects of passenger behaviour 247 (April)

 

DIESEL TRACTION

By Diesel Train 452* (August)

Class 56s on the coal 260* (May)

DP2 - A Remarkable Prototype 470 (August)

Iron ore for Llanwern 708* (December)

Swindon-built DMUs in Scotland 99 (February)

Western red 443* (July)

York, Changing at 132* (March)

 

ELECTRIC TRACTION

District Railway Electrics 293 (May)

Glasgow Blue Trains 626 (October)

West Coast Main Line Electrification 644 (November)

 

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY

East Anglian stopping points 31* (January)

Representing the Eastern Counties 160* (March), 527* (September)

 

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY

Motor omnibuses if the GNoSR and the General Post Office 588 (October)

 

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY

GN suburban trains, Eric Bruton on the 593* (October)

 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

'2251' Class 0-6-0s 352* (June)

Birmingham Snow Hill and Moor Street 199* (April)

Brimscombe bankers 145 (March)

Churchward and the Locomotive Exchanges with the LNWR 567 (September)

Eight-coupled tanks 672 (November)

GWR in Wirral 300 (May), 426 (July)

Herefordshire's railways 228 (April)

'King' Class 4-6-0s 32* (January)

Life, Death and Other Matters: GWR in 1870 714 (December)

More GWR Improvement Schemes 112 (February)

Now we shall have the Naming of Engines 472 (August)

Old Oak Common, Valediction to 196* (April)

Paddington, On the platform end at 516* (September)

Shakespeare Country 25 (January)

Summers out West 736* (December)

Worcestershire's railways 614 (October)

 

INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS

Fifeshire steam 380* (June)

Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Railway 268 (May)

Manning Wardle Class N, The curious case of the 622 (October)

Marshall Meadows Tunnel Railway 410 (July)

Men from the Ministry, The 393 (July)

Shunting Dibbles Wharf 724* (December)

 

IRISH RAILWAYS

County Donegal Railway, The last years of the 454 (August)

Dublin Amiens Street 278* (May)

Irish nationalism and railways in 20th century 326 (June)

 

Isle of Man Railway system in 1968 467 (August)

 

LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

By steam to the steamers 20 (January), 86 (February)

Club Trains: A Good Run for your Money 242 (April)

Lancashire Alliance, A (Lancashire Union Railway) 171 (March)

LYR Loop Lines 596 (October)

Major Druitt meets his Waterloo 548 (September)

 

Lancashire Union Railway 171 (March)

 

LIVERIES AND INSIGNIA

Looking blue 544* (September)

Metropolitan's diamond logo 518 (September)

On the street where you live 240 (April)

Pick a colour (diesel liveries) 120* (February)

Posts and Fennces 571* (September)

Western red 443* (July)

 

Liverpool Overhead Railway 189 (March)

 

LOCOMOTIVES (Miscellaneous)

Atlantic Journeys 414* (July)

Beet, Les: Extracts from a steam locomotive driver's life 753 (December)

Carnforth and Cumbria 288* (May)

Getting a Quart out of a Pint Pot 155 (March), 347 (June)

Tackling the Gradient 710 (December)

 

London & Birmingham Railway 416* (July), 420 (July), 484 (August)

 

LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

A3 Pacific haulage 480* (August)

A3 Pacifics, Eric Bruton's 92* (February)

LNER Flyers from the air 542* (September)

Take the Motor Car 221* (April)

To the North East Coast Exhibition 13 (January)

 

LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Bushey water troughs in LNWR days 734* (December)

By steam to the steamers 20 (January), 86 (February)

Churchward and the Locomotive Exchanges with the LNWR 567 (September)

Club Trains: A Good Run for your Money 242 (April)

Former LNWR routes out of Leeds 719 (December)

Whitmore 208 (April), 366 (June)

 

LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Beyond Clapham Junction 182 (March)

Go West 316* (May)

King Arthur' 4-6-0s 402* (July)

Shunting Dibbles Wharf 724* (December)

Southampton - Memories in working in docks 356 (June)

Southern gone West: Plymouth and its branches 398 (July), 492 (August), 676 (November)

SR pre-grouping 0-6-0 freight engines 234 (April)

 

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY

Beyond Clapham Junction 182 (March)

SR pre-grouping 0-6-0 freight engines 234 (April)

 

LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY

2-6-4 Tanks 224* (April)

Jutland 'Jubilees' 36* (January)

'Patriot' 4-6-0s 374* (June)

 

LONDON TRANSPORT

From Gravel to Buddleia (Croxley tip) 14 (January)

 

METROPOLITAN / METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAYS

Aldersgate Explosion, Harry Pitts and the 694 (November)

Aldgate to Glyncorrwg 222 (April)

District Railway electrics 293 (May)

From Gravel to Buddleia (Croxley tip) 14 (January)

Metropolitan Railway Appendix to Working Timetable Aug. 1921 122 (March)

Metropolitan's diamond logo 518 (September)

Metropolitan in the Gironde 572 (September)

 

MIDLAND RAILWAY

Back to the Settle–Carlisle line 275* (May)

By steam to the steamers 20 (January), 86 (February)

Engine Shed Junction, The final days of 378 (June)

Kentish Town and Cricklewood sheds 4* (January)

Worcestershire's railways 614 (October)

 

Midland & Great Northern Joint Line, The closure of the 138 (March), 214 (April)

Ministers of Transport 1919-1969: 'Rather Unprincipled Persons' 537 (September), 630 (October)

 

Night photography 558* (September), 670* (November)

 

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY

Coal to the Sea - the Lothian lines 340 (June)

Road engines, The 72 (February)

South of the Solway 280 (May)

 

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

NER and its Timetables in Edwardian days 460 (August), 530 (September)

NER Signal Boxes 762* (December)

Club Trains: A Good Run for your Money 242 (April)

Ripon - a city no longer with a railway 48 (January), 164 (March)

Z Class Atlantics 364 (June)

 

PERMANENT WAY

Origins, diagnoses and historical prevention of Track Failures 56 (January)

 

PERSONALITIES

Beet, Les 753 (December)

Bruton, Eric 593* (October)

Budden, Tice F. 500 (August)

Carruthers J. L. (and others) 189 (March)

Churchward and the Locomotive Exchanges with the LNWR 567 (September)

Druitt, Major 548 (September)

Hill, Colonel H. G. 433 (July)

Ministers of Transport 1919-1969: 'Rather Unprincipled Persons' 537 (September), 630 (October)

Von Dechen, Ernst 393 (July)

Von Oeynhausen, Karl 393 (July)

 

PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING

Namings and ceremonies 110 (February)

Shakespeare Country 25 (January)

Take the Motor Car 221* (April)

To the North East Coast Exhibition 13 (January)

 

Railway Excursion Traffic 1830-1899 308 (May)

 

RAILWAY IN COURT

Claims against railway companies 7 (January)

Dispute over Running Powers 83 (February)

Doors closing 611 (October)

 

Railway navvy in nineteenth century Britain 80 (February)

Railway Post Offices 262 (May)

Road engines 72 (February)

Robberies on the rails 726 (December)

 

ROLLING STOCK

Aldgate to Glyncorrwg 222 (April)

Club Trains: A Good Run for your Money 242 (April)

Metropolitan in the Gironde 572 (September)

'Night Ferry', The 388, 391 (July)

Some thoughts on passenger accommodation 436 (July)

 

Secondary considerations 750* (December)

 

SHIPPING SERVICES

'Night Ferry', The 388, 391 (July)

By steam to the steamers 20 (January), 86 (February)

 

SIGNALLING

Engine Shed Junction, The final days of 378 (June)

Firbeck, The junctions at 28 (January)

Lincolnshire signal boxes 46* (January)

NER signal boxes 762* (December)

Scottish signal variety 306* (May)

Wednesbury winter's night 102 (February)

 

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

Beyond Clapham Junction 182 (March)

Dover Prory Murder 699 (November)

Inherited express passenger locomotives of the SECR 38 (January)

L and L1 Class 4-4-0s 38 (January)

SR pre-grouping 0-6-0 freight engines 234 (April)

 

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

Beyond Clapham Junction 182 (March)

Inherited express passenger locomotives of the SECR 38 (January)

'King Arthur' 4-6-0s 402* (July)

Maunsell freight engines 580 (October)

'Night Ferry', The 388, 391 (July)

SR pre-grouping 0-6-0 freight engines 234 (April)

 

STATIONS AND LOCATIONS

Aldersgate 694 (November)

Birkenhead 300, 426 (July)

Birmingham (GWR) line 112 (February)

Birmingham Snow Hill and Moor Street 199* (April)

Brimscombe 145 (March)

Cardiff General 112 (February)

Carnforth and Cumbria 288* (May)

Clapham Junction 182 (March)

Credenhill 498* (August)

Crieff 560 (September)

Daggons Road 498* (August)

Derbyshire 654* (November)

Didcot 112 (February)

Dover Priory 699 (November)

Dublin 278* (May)

Euston, Beyond 68* (February)

Dundee 72 (February)

Firbeck 28 (January)

Glasgow 626 (October)

Harringay 760 (December)

Herefordshire 228 (April)

Isle of Man 467 (August)

Leeds 608* (October), 719 (December)

Leith - Lothian lines 340 (June)

Liverpool Lime St. 407* (July)

Llangadog 499* (August)

London: Lesser London 686* (November)

London Paddington 516* (September)

Mid-Wales line 324* (June)

Morfa Mawddach 178* (March)

North Wales Main Line 554* (September)

Oxford–Cambridge line 332 (June)

Plymouth 398 (July), 492 (August)

Ripon 48 (January), 164 (March)

Ryecroft Junction 502 (August), 603 (October)

Settle–Carlisle line 275* (May)

Solway, South of the 280 (May)

Southampton Docks 356 (June), 724 (December)

Stainmore Route 739 (December)

Swindon 112 (February)

Teignmouth 736* (December)

Waterloo (Liverpool) 548 (September)

Wednesbury 102 (February)

Whitmore 208 (April), 366 (June)

Wiveliscombe 499* (August)

Worcestershire 614 (October)

York 132* (March)

 

TUNNELS

Down in the Lime Street cutting 407* (July)

Marshall Meadows Tunnel Railway 410 (July)

 

Vale of Rheidol Railway 746* (December)

 

WARTIME

Great Silence and the Railways 1919 180 (March)

Hill, Colonel H. G. and his two locomotives 433 (July)

 

Workers, What about the? 135* (March)