SteamRailway8/96 SWINDON 1953, MARAZION '56 free UK p+p

Steam Railway August 1996

Features include: World steam news;
'Great Central North' forges ahead: at Ruddington, centre of operations for the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) Ltd;
Lineside cameras: choosing the best;
LNER Coronation beaver-tail observation coaches: a call for action to restore the one at Carnforth, with a 1937 photo;
Main line;
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway restoration project: the latest from Woody Bay, including an old picture (around 1925?) of a newly delivered Manning Wardle 188 Lew at Barnstaple Town;
Centenary of the 2ft gauge Groudle Glen Railway, Isle of Man;
It's the carriage that counts!: historic coaches;
The glorious years, with photographer Ron Cover, and photos: Castle class 5095 Barbury Castle at Swindon after overhaul and fitting with double chimney; Britannia 4-6-2 no.70027 Rising Star at Swindon, 1953; 45XX Prairie tank 5539 at Marazion; at Wadebridge in 1960, T9 no.30338 on the tender; Hawksworth 'County' 4-6-0 no.1006 County of Cornwall on shed at Marazion, Cornwall, 1956; rebuilt Merchant Navy 4-6-2 no.35011 General Steam Navigatiion slips under the fine gantry of LSWR signals, Basingstoke, 1965; minus nameplates and with its tender still with 'GWR', Manor 7816 waits on Eastleigh shed, 1964;
Time warp at North road: for 21 years this station, built by the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1842, has formed the heart of Darlington Railway Centre and Museum;
Steam breaks in the Heart of England. 

Photographs include: Gallery;
An LMS ex Caledonian 4-6-2T Beattock banker, 55359 at Carlisle Kingmoor in 1952;
Twenty Foot Crossing goods shed 1961,as Gresley K3 class 2-6-0 no.61960 passes; 34 years later, the second photo shows the remaining shed and a signal, with the trackbed being a country park. 

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