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Railway Magazine 1991 September Future rail Rural railbus Steming into smallbroo
Railway Magazine September 1991 No 1085 Vol 137
CONTENTS
604-623: 666-669 NEWS PAGES
Britannia makes its main line debutbut only just!; 'Rural railbus' launched; Big plans for Holland's 'Steam 91' event; New look for London Underground stock; Steam returns to Smallbrook; Pullman car destroyed in blaze; Class 50 latest; Regional and Sector updates; Record run for Duke of Gloucester.
626-627 THE BIG MEETIN'
Philip Johnson remembers the great days of the Durham Miners' Gala, when special trains arrived at the city from all over the North-Eastand returning participants were often delivered back to their waiting carriages by luggage barrows!
629-632 TEN YEARS AT LLANGOLLEN
Mark Hambly looks back over a decade of progress at the Llangollen Railway.
633-637 DAVID EATWELL IN CHINA
David Eatwell enthuses over the breathtaking everyday sight of active steamand the sheer frustration that can greet the umwary travellerin the People's Republic of China.
638-643 THE RAILWAY ART OF DON BRECKON
Nostalgia oozes from Don Breckon's well-loved paintings of steam trains in the British landscape. Peter Kelly visits him at his Cornwall home.
644-645 THE `CROSSRAIL' PROJECT
Modern Traction Editor Colin J. Marsden explains the exciting CrossRall plan to provide a direct link, using tunnels beneath the city centre, from east to west London.
646-647 CHANNEL TUNNEL UPDATES
Chief Correspondent Peter Semmens reports on the Third National Channel Tunnel Conference, and writes a postscript to that final breakthrough.
649-653 GREASED LIGHTNING
Locomotive Practice & Performance records some impressive running with the full introduction of Intercity 225 trains on the East Coast Main Line.
657-659 ORE NO MORE
Not that long ago, the county of Northamptonshire was teeming with Ironstone quarries and the industrial locomotives that served them. Eric Sawford remembers.
REGULAR FEATURES
Platform 5 Stock Changes, 624-625; Mailbag, 654-655; Coming Events, 660-661; Why & Wherefore, 662-663; 50 & 20 Years Ago, 663; Railfare, 664-665.
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