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Steam Railway #2 Snowdon steam Damn those dieses Cuneo latest masterpeice
Steam Railway No 2
CONTENTS
6 A wreath for Norma If industrial steam doesn't turn you on, stand by to be converted. Geoff Silcock tells a story you'll want to read twice.
8 Mountain Ash clings on . . . Seven locos, brutally neglected and hammered for 36-hour stintsthis is Mountain Ash, steam's last stronghold in the Valleys.
10 Paint it black Preserved locos but which liveries? Authentic or bastardised? Derek Cross argues that even Duchesses are best painted black.
14 Spot the difference . . . . and win a camera worth nearly . Another simple competition that costs nothing to enter.
16 Mailbag Your chance to let off steam, plus introducing for the first time, cartoonist Bill Stott's 'Relief Lines'.
18 Pugs versus Terriers One a dock shunter, the other a branch-line tank. David Wilcock compares the pedigrees of these two much-loved steam survivors.
24 Gradient 1 in 5, and look no brakes! David Wilcock examines a steam system that breaks all the rules that other railways have to keep.
28 Operation Salvage Men dedicated to saving engines in Britain, have been cutting them up in Sweden. It's sacrilege, but with good reason.
32 On the rack Backing up our page 24 article with a full-colour spread on Britain's slowest railwaythe Snowdon Mountain rack.
34 Don't look now, there's a man in the tender! Feast your eyes on Cunec's latest canvas in Bryan Holden's new series on Britain's steam artists.
40 Main line magic. Photo featuring more main-line steam double heading on the Curator plus York Circular, Cumbrian Coast Express & North Yorkshireman.
42 Preserved line profile The Mid-Hants line, closed by BR in 1973 is busy re-equipping for the day when the rail link to London is restored.
47 News BR looks again at steam turbines, prisoner power on the East Somerset, Galatea to steam again, plus nationwide coverage of preservation news.
52 Damn those diesels! Are diesels the skeleton in preservation's cupboard? Do passengers care what pulls the train? Chris Bates provides some answers.
55 Industrial steam stocklist Steam that still serves industry is a precious rarity in 1979. We document the engines and their hiding places.
56 Saturated steam Turning out six locos at once is some feat, but on the Severn Valley Railway, that's only part of preparing the busiest of timetables.
60 Told the railway secrets that Hitler wanted to know Wartime footplatemen tell the story of the US-built 2-8-0s the 'secret' locos of 1942.
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