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Steam Railway #139 November 1991 Folkestone picture special Locos that met viole
Steam Railway No 139 1991 November
CONTENTS
NEWS: North Norfolk Railway's B 12 travels to what a mere few months ago was Communist East Germany!; Main line steam returns to Cambridgeshire's overgrown St.lves branch; Swanage Railway reboilers its ex-Yugoslav USA Tank; Plus: are our readers aware they are probably ill? A leading psychiatrist believes most locospotters and collectors of railwayana are suffering from autism! All this and more in the steamiest news pages.
DEATH BY UNNATURAL CAUSES: If you ever wondered why odd engines were missing from otherwise complete class lists in the loco number books of yesteryear, this article is for you. Philip Atkins looks into the strange case of locos that met a violent end.
THE SECOND COMING: 'The picture, not the train'. Laurie Manns is one of that rare but growing breed of photographers who cares not if a locomotive is running bunker first or its identity is open to conjecture. Here he shares some of his personal favourites.
HARBOUR MASTERS: There have been few spectacles like it in the history of main line steam. Two consecutive days, some dozen return journeys, a Pacific, a banker and a gradient of no less than I-in-30. Throw in some of the most spectacular panoramic views and lots of sunshine and you have the perfect recipe. As one wag pointed out, a bomb dropped on Folkestone on September 13 would have wiped out almost every steam photographer and railway journalist in the country!
THE GLORIOUS YEARS: Oddly enough, this month's guest photographer Dennis Tebbutt became interested in railways after seeing a loco he didn't much care for - the bulbous-nosed No. 5005 Manorbier Castle at Goodrington in 1935. It nevertheless led to a lifetime of passionate interest in steam.
WHERE GCR 'POM-POMS' LIVE ON: The greatly-loved LNER J II class 0-6-0s of Great Central origin are now but a fond memory but as Hugh Ballantyne reports, those prepared to fly out to Karachi can still turn the clock back. What price a repatriation effort, we wonder?
WORLDWIDEREPORT Foreign correspondent David Thornhill casts his eagle eye onto newspaper reports from around the world - and confirms that you cannot always believe what you read in the press (present company excepted of course!)
THE GREAT LINESIDE REVOLUTION: time you're jostling for position on a narrow, windswept overbridge or cursing the idiot in the high-viz vest who's just wandered into your picture, cast your mind back to those peaceful days when `gricing' was a minority interest. With the interest in steam at an all-time high and seemingly still booming, David Wilcock examines the phenomenal changes seen on the lineside in the last decade.
VIDEO VIEW With Christmas only a few weeks away, its time to start thinking of gifts again. The Steam Railway team sifts through the pick of this year's steam videos to bring you the best of the tapes from home and abroad.
MAILBAG: A standard rule book for the use of all railways might take some compiling - but think of all the advantages. Reader Peter Jordan puts forward some valid points in favour of such a move. Plus praise for Steam Railway's valuable free supplements in steam publishing's best letters pages.
HOW IT WORKS: Ian Smith continues his popular 'Encyclopaedia of Steam' series, this month looking at the complex intricacies of the boiler.
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