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INDEX TO BACKTRACK Volume 35 (2021)

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

321-368

7

July

369-416

8

August

417-464

9

September

465-512

10

October

513-560

11

November

561-608

12

December

609-656

 

 

 

Major Subject Areas In Volume 35

ACCIDENTS

BRITISH RAILWAYS

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

DIESEL TRACTION

ELECTRIC TRACTION

FURNESS RAILWAY

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (inc. MSLR)

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS

IRISH RAILWAYS

LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

LOCOMOTIVES (Misc.)

LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

 

LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY

LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY

MIDLAND RAILWAY

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

PERSONALITIES

PUBLICITY & ADVERTISING

ROLLING STOCK

SHIPPING

SIGNALLING

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

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

STATIONS & LOCATIONS

 

ACCIDENTS

Permanent Way, At risk on the 526 (Oct)

Birkby, Fatal accident at 206 (Apr)

Bradenham Crossing Accident of 1929 420 (Aug)

Buddon - derailment without apparent cause 348 (July)

Easter Sunday Tragedy 1846 452 (Aug)

Runaway platform barrows 494 (Sept)

Topsy-Turvy at Turvey 35 (Jan)

 

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Around Runcorn and Widnes 652* (Dec)

Backwaters of the London Midland: A study in performance 158 (Mar)

Battling Beeching in the Peak District 472 (Sept), 574 (Oct)

British Rail and beypond in Gwynedd 598 (Nov)

British Transport Films 1950-83 352 (July)

'Britannia' 4-6-2s on the Great Eastern 488* (Sept)

Class 4 '76000' 2-6-0s 88* (Feb)

Class 56s at work 588* (Nov)

Crane solutions at Derby 276 (May)

Farnborough, 60 years ago in 319 (June)

Freight working around Kent 172* (Apr)

'From the Tyne to the Border' 228* (May)

Grand tour of East Anglia: 1953 Best Kept Stations Competition 180 (Apr)

Illegal rail closure, A review of 26 (Jan), 146 (Mar)

Liverpool Lime Street, Dark times at 340* (July)

Modernising the London Midland Region 218* (Apr)

Motorail trains 498 (Sept), 531 (Oct)

Orbiting London 245 (May)

Postal trains 116* (Mar), 380* (July)

Port Sunlight problem 672 (Dec)

Serpell Report: On a journey to nowhere 290 (June)

Shadow Franchise 1988-91 623 (Nov)

Summer Saturdays to the coast 342 (July), 436 (Aug)

 

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

Ballachulish branch train 220* (Apr)

Cruising by Train and Circular Tours 536 (Oct)

Derailment without apparent cause 348 (July)

McIntosh, J. F., Locomotives of 590 (Nov)

 

Cheshire Lines Committee:

Mersey Railway to Merseyrail - How Liverpool got its modern Metro 544 (Oct)

 

DIESEL TRACTION

Class 56s at work 588* (Nov)

English Electric in Northumberland 511* (Sept)

Southern diesels 427 (Aug)

 

ELECTRIC TRACTION

A flash of Southern Electric 42* (Jan)

Express electric railways 297 (June)

 

FURNESS RAILWAY

Cumbrian Coast, Following the 430* (Aug)

Lake Steamers 162 (Mar)

 

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (inc. MSLR)

Four-coupled on the LNER 632* (Nov)

On GC in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire 94* (Feb)

Northamptonshire's railways 124 (Mar)

 

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY

East Enders -GE tanks 252* (May)

Ipswich: A hub for Suffolk railways 607 (Nov)

 

Great Northern Railway: Bradford, Railways of 264 (May)

Great North of Scotland Railway: Four- coupled on the LNER 632* (Nov)

 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

'Aberdares' and RODs 630* (Nov)

Abingdon branch 119 (Mar)

Bradenham Crossing accident of 1929 420 (Aug)

Calne branch 36 (Jan), 81 (Feb)

Cambrian 'Manor' 697* (Dec)

Cotswold farewell 690* (Dec)

Gloucester 382* (July)

GWR Tenancy (Camp Coaches) 462 (Sep), 564 (Oct)

'Hall' 4-6-0s 364* Looe branch 486 (Sep)

South Wales sheds, Going round 198* (Apr)

Steam railmotors and auto trains in Wrexham District 234 (May), 311 (June)

Summer Saturdays to the coast 342 (July), 436 (Aug)

Where did the money come from? 508 (Sept)

 

INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS

Dinorwic Quarry 514* (Sept)

Flockton Waggonway 558 (Oct)

Penrhyn Quarry - Up in the gallery 396* (Aug), 514* (Sept)

Whittingham Hospital Railway 232 (May)

 

Inspector calls, An 153 (Mar)

 

IRISH RAILWAYS

End of company service (Spoil trains) 17 (Jan)

Irish Pacific tank locomotives 665 (Dec)

Sligo, Scenes from 310* (June)

Strabane, A lost railway centre 240 (May), 374 (July)

 

Kent Coast Railway 398 (Aug)

 

LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

Amalgamation with the LNWR 1921 104 (Feb)

Bradford, Railways of 264 (May)

Entwistel: A local outpost 692 (Dec)

Hellifield: Rural backwater to major junction 367 (July)

Manchester & Leeds Railway: Aspects of the 636 (Nov)

Men at Work 698* (Dec)

Mersey Railway to Merseyrail – How Liverpool got its modern Metro 544 (Oct)

Poulton-le-Fylde in focus 328 (June)

 

Liverpool & Manchester Railway,

Rocket and Public Relations 406 (Aug)

 

LOCOMOTIVES (Misc.)

Carlisle Upperby shed 4* (Jan)

Complaints about engine whistles 75 (Feb)

Frustrations of Fuel Efficieny 384, (July) 469 (Sept), 619 (Nov)

Locomotive spending spree 1921 215 (Apr)

Naming ceremonies 144* (Mar)

Timing the train – and checking the records 445 (Aug)

 

LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

A2 Pacifics 32* (Jan)

Cruising by Train and Circular Tours 536 (Oct)

Four-coupled on the LNER 632* (Nov)

great Northern Section, On the 706* (Dec)

Gresley's Pacifics - as they were 442* (Aug)

Harrogate 143* (Mar)

L1 2-6-4Ts 552* (Oct)

LNER phoenix - No.2000 388* (July)

Where did the money come from? 508 (Sept)

Working at Christmas 7 (Jan)

 

LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Amalgamation with the LYR 1921 104 (Feb)

Battling Beeching in the Peak District 472, 574 (Oct)

Mersey Railway to Merseyrail – How Liverpool got its modern Metro 544 (Oct)

Poulton-le-Fylde in focus 328 (June)

Northamptonshire's railways 124 (Mar)

 

LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

'0298' well tanks – Engines of a certain age 424* (Aug)

Ilfracombe station, The rise and fall of 96 (Feb), 190 (Apr)

'King Arthur' Class 686 (Dec)

Wight summers 555* (Oct)

 

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY

Brighton Atlantics 196* (Apr)

Croydon 174 (Apr)

E/1R Class 372* (July)

Pacific tanks 615 (Nov)

Sussex, Steaming through 284* (June)

 

LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY

4F 0-6-0s 308* (June)

City of Stoke-on-Trent No.6245 208 (Apr)

Coach working in South Wales 70 (Feb)

'Jubilee' 4-6-0s 616* (Nov)

Mersey Railway to Merseyrail – How Liverpool got its modern Metro 544 (Oct)

'Patriot' 4-6-0s 680* (Dec)

'Princess Royal' 4-6-2s 140* (Mar)

'Royal Scots' - Britain's greatest main line locomotives 478 (Sept)

Where did the money come from? 508 (Sept)

 

Manchester & Leeds Railway 636 (Nov)

Mersey Railway: ...to Merseyrail – How Liverpool got its modern Metro 544 (Oct)

 

MIDLAND RAILWAY

3F/4F 0-6-0s 308* (June)

Battling Beeching in the Peak District 472 (Sept), 574 (Oct)

Bradford, Railways of 264 (May)

Gloucester 382* (July)

Hellifield: Rural backwater to major junction 367 (Jul)

'Little North Western' line 262* (May)

Northamptonshire's railways 124 (Mar)

 

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY

Cruising by Train and Circular Tours 536 (Oct)

Derailment without apparent cause 348 (July)

Four-coupled on the LNER 632* (Nov)

'Glen' Class D34 4-4-0s 460* (Sept)

Fenwick, James, Station Master 287 (June)

Kelso - South east by North British 302 (June)

 

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

Birkby, Fatal accident at 206 (Apr)

Coals from Newcastle 44 (Jan)

Four-coupled on the LNER 632* (Nov)

Saltburn locomotive shed 132 (Mar)

Tanfield branch: tragedy, trespass & trivia 359 (July)

Whitby locomotive shed 413 (Aug)

 

North Staffordshire Railway:

Stoke station and its station masters 53 (Jan)

 

Permanent Way, At risk on the 526 (Oct)

 

PERSONALITIES

Dodds family dynasty 256 (May)

Fenwick, James 287 (June)

McIntosh, J. F. 590 (Nov)

Serpell, Sir David 290 (June)

 

Postal trains 116* (Mar), 380* (July)

Preston & Longridge Railway 232 (May)

 

PUBLICITY & ADVERTISING

British Transport Films 1950-83 352 (July)

 

Liverpool & Manchester Railway,

Rocket and Public Relations 406 (Aug)

 

'Railway Mania': "For God's sake be done with railways and shares" 700 (Dec)

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 378* (July), 662* (Dec)

 

ROLLING STOCK

Coach working on LMS lines in South Wales 70 (Feb)

Coffins by corpse van 202 (Apr)

GWR Tenancy (Camp Coaches) 462 (Sept), 564 (Oct)

Motorail trains 498 (Sept), 531 (Oct)

Steam railmotors and auto trains in Wrexham District 234 (May), 311 (June)

 

SHIPPING

Furness Railway lake steamers 13* (Jan)

Maid of Kent, Crossing with the 644* (Nov)

Operation Dynamo 272 (May)

Paddle steamers in the Firth 13* (Jan)

 

SIGNALLING

Kensington Olympia, Signalling interlude at 434 (Aug)

Memories of a West Country signalman 654 (Dec)

Northolt Junction East 91 (Feb)

Selside winter 48 (Jan), 187 (Apr)

Uffington signal box 684 (Dec)

Somerset & Dorset Joint line 524* (Oct)

 

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

Croydon 174 (Apr)

Kent Coast Railway 398 (Aug)

 

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

E1/R Class 372* (July)

'King Arthur' Class 686 (Dec)

Maid of Kent, Crossing with the 644* (Nov)

Operation Dynamo 272 (May)

Southern diesels 427 (Aug)

Summer Saturdays to the coast 342 (July), 436 (Aug)

Where did the money come from? 508 (Sept)

 

STATIONS & LOCATIONS

Abingdon 119 (Mar)

Bardney 503 (Sept)

Bradford 264 (May)

Buxton 272 (May), 574 (Oct)

Calne 36 (Jan), 81 (Feb)

Carlisle 4* (Jan)

Colwick 7 (Jan)

Croydon 174 (Apr)

Cumbrian Coast 430* (Aug)

East Anglia 180 (Apr)

Entwistle 692 (Dec)

'From the Tyne to the Border' 228* (May)

Glasgow Central 68* (Feb)

Gloucester 382* (July)

Gwynedd 598 (Nov)

Harrogate 143* (Mar)

Hellifield 367 (July)

Ilfracombe 96 (Feb), 190 (Apr)

Ipswich 607 (Nov)

Isle of Wight 555* (Oct)

Kelso 302 (June)

Kent Coast Railway 398 (Aug)

'Little North Western' line 262* (May)

Liverpool (Metro) 544 (Oct)

Liverpool Lime Street 340* (July)

London St. Pancras 512* (Sept)

Longridge 232 (May)

Looe branch 486 (Sept)

Northamptonshire 124 (Mar)

Port Sunlight 672 (Dec)

Poulton-le-Fylde 328 (June)

Runcorn and Widnes 652* (Dec)

Saltburn 132 (Mar)

Scotland, Eric Bruton in 676* (Dec)

Selside 48 (Jan), 187 (Apr)

Shap and Ais Gill 571* (Oct)

Sligo 310* (June)

South and West wanderings 326* (June)

South Wales 506* (Sept)

Stoke-on-Trent 53 (Jan)

Strabane 240 (May), 374 (July)

Sussex, Steaming through 284* (June)

Swansea Victoria–Pontardulais 60* (Jan)

Tanfield branch 358 (Jul)

Whitby 413 (Aug)

Wrexham 234 (May), 311 (June)

 

Tunnels: Summit 636 (Nov)

 

Wartime: Operation Dynamo 272 (May)

Whistles, Complaints about 75 (Feb)