June 2026 edition of BackTrack out now!
To and from Bournemouth West – colour spread by Gavin Morrison The Manson 4-6-0s of the Glasgow & South Western Railway – profiled by David Anderson The ‘Jeeps’ of the LMS Northern Counties Committee: Part One: The last survivors – Conrad Natzio explores the end of a long road and how it was achieved in Northern Ireland.
The Wantage Tramway: Part Two – Bruce Law concludes his history with a look at its operation, decline and closure.
Given a Crosti look – colour photos of the Crosti-boilered BR 9F locomotives.
The Conference of Motive Power Officers: Part Four – J. Crosse continues his trawl through their deliberations in the early 1950s.
The ‘Dean Goods’ – colour spread of the long-serving Great Western Railway engines.
Baltic Tanks – archive photographs of four designs of powerful pre-grouping 4-6-4 tank locomotives.
‘Sympathetic Extortion?’ – Adrian Gray considers why compensation for railway accidents became so controversial in 1866.
Picturesque Staffordshire – Mike G. Fell shows how it was portrayed by the North Staffordshire Railway.
This is what it says – colour photos of some long-lasting metal railway notices.
The Life and Times of Marston Green – Nicholas Daunt describes a wayside station on the Euston–Birmingham route.
AC:DC–DC:AC: Part One – Stephen G. Abbott reviews power systems and their changes on Britain’s electrified railway network.
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