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Steam Railway #229 April 1999 Flying Scotsman City of Truro for main line return
Steam Railway #229 April 1999 Flying Scotsman City of Truro for main line return
Steam Railway #229 April 1999 Flying Scotsman City of Truro for main line return

Steam Railway #229 April 1999 Flying Scotsman City of Truro for main line return

Steam Railway #229 April 1999
CONTENTS
6 King's Cross run for 'Scotsman' 
'A3' Flying Scotsman will run King's Cross-York east coast excursion in July.
6 S&D 175 cavalcade in 2000
Cavalcade for S&D may be last ever.
7 Mid Hants chief resigns
Margaret Parker leaves Mid Hants after board makes her position 'untenable'.
8 'Fighting Fund' for Lynton trackbed
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway aims to raise up to £2m to buy L&B trackbed.
10 No Receiver appointed for Days Out
No word from Days Out 12 weeks after the company 'ceases trading'.
11 Main line trains to Minehead
Upgraded signalling plans may see through trains to West Somerset's Minehead.
12 City of Truro for main line?
Overhaul possible for City of Truro.
15 BR liven. domination ends at SVR
BR monopoly ends as 'Pannier' goes green.
16 Narrow Gauge News
Taliesin to be launched six months early.
18 World Steam
Myanmar steam to be opened to visitors.
20 GCR faces bridge upgrading bill
Road bridge upgrade could cost £200,000.
FEATURES
30 George Pembroke
Steam Railway's columnist George Pembroke runs his rule over one heritage railway each month.This issue it's the turn of the I9 1/2  mile West Somerset Railway between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead, looking at the service offered to visitors.Are the staff helpful? Are the trains clean? Find out here in his report...
34 The Great Central - a railway ahead of its time?
As the Great Central Railway's London extension reaches its 100th anniversary,Andrew Dow looks back at the drive and leadership that saw the GCR planning to run trains to the Continent via a Channel tunnel. As Railtrack's East and West Coast Main Lines struggle under increasing traffic, should the GC ever have been closed?
50 Cumbria's Man of Steam
Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway driver and engineer Alan Middleton has been 'playing with steam' since the 1960s. His latest project has been to help rebuild Furness Railway No. 20 to a tender locomotive. Phil Haigh travels to Cumbria to ask Alan how his career with steam started and comes back with some unusual tales!
78 Taking the slow boat back to Blunsdon GWR
The Swindon and Cricklade Railway runs north west from Swindon shadowing the route of the old North Wiltshire Canal. Robin Jones looks at the railway's achievements and outlines the local council's plans to link the railway's expansion with the canal's restoration to provide an integrated transport day out.



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