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Railway Magazine 1988 September Wolverton Works 150 Crompton from Cardiff
Railway Magazine September 1988 No 1049 Vol 134
CONTENTS
551 News and Notes "Talyllyn" renumbered; Preparing for the Chunnel; Proposed colliery link; Travellers Fare to be sold; Package for Chiltern; Llangollen leases Ruabon
567 Locomotive Practice and Performance P. W. B. Semmens covers high-speed happenings and fastest timings achieved by HSTs
572 'Duchess of Hamilton' at Fifty Michael Blakemore reviews progress of work to restore the National Railway Museum's famous West Coast locomotive to main-line running
584 Mallard '88 Special P. W. B. Semmens travels behind the LNER record-breaker on the anniversary run commemorating its feat of fifty years earlier
586 Crompton from Cardiff Malcolm Roughley samples a footplate ride on a class "33"
590 Wolverton 150 Doug. Smith reflects on the 150th anniversary of Wolverton Works and interviews some of the staff of the maintenance depot there
592 Last Lickey Bankers Tony Higgs witnesses the last booked working of a railway tradition going back to the 1840s
593 Making Tracks at Summerlee Hugh Dougherty previews a Scottish open-air industrial museum, near Glasgow
596 `Britain's New Railways' P.W. B. Semmens visits the British displays at the International Transport & Traffic Exhibition at Hamburg in June, and comments on some European trends for the future
Regular Features
Coming Events562
Fifty Years Ago571
Panorama574
Mail Bag599
Traffic & Traction602
Why & Wherefore 604
Railfare605
Railfare Extra606
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