March 2026 edition of BackTrack out now!
Six-coupled tanks on the North British – colour spread of long-serving 0-6-0 tanks in Scotland.
1960s Motive Power Transition on the South Furness line: Part One – Observations between Preston, Carnforth and Barrow by Steve Leyland.
Great Gable: Ashford to Dover – Jeremy Clarke traces the building of the railway to the Channel ports.
From the North East – archive photos of locomotives from the North Eastern Railway.
The Short Reign of the first Railway Mail Coaches – Tom Nicholls looks at postal services in the early years of railways.
Hamworthy Junction – Michael Marshall takes a retrospective look at a Dorset station.
Requiem for the Somerset & Dorset – a colour tribute on the 60th anniversary of its closure.
The Chalfont Railcar Years – the concluding part of Mike Fenton’s study of the local services in the Stroud Valley in Gloucestershire and some of the people who worked it.
The Charlestown Branch: Part One – Alistair F. Nisbet describes a harbour branch on the Firth of Forth.
Merseyside Electrics – photographs by Gavin Morrison of the Southport and Wirral electric units.
William Rowan’s Steam Railcars – Darryl Grant introduces us to these vehicles largely built in Britain for service in South Australia.
This was the Vale of Neath line – John White’s photographs on the Neath–Pontypool Road line.BackTrack Volume 40 No 3 March 2026
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