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Steam World #135 September 1998 Doncaster Plant Centenarian Bath secret military
Steam World September 1998
4 COMMENT
Prompted by the 30th anniversary of the end of BR steam, the Editor reflects on the 1960s as a decade in relation to railways - Beeching, corporate image and all.
6 CALL ATTENTION
This month's starter course of railway tit-bits includes milk churns, an unusual station gas lighting system, and the mystery of a couple of 'WD' 2-8-0s which seem to have swapped identities.
20 HALESOWEN - HAIL AND FAREWELL
The Halesowen 'branch' was a single track line which linked Great Western and Midland routes south west of Birmingham and served the Longbridge motor car factory. J.D. Wood concludes his recollections of this attractive railway.
32 PLATFORM
The readers' letters page this month remembers a Saltley driver, considers the subject of carriage cleaners and provides more details of the recent aerial photograph of Burton-on-Trent.
33 REVIEWS
A frameable print with a difference is among the new offerings reviewed this month.
34 TOTON 1951
For the Toton open days, we present an Aerofilms view of the yard area as it was in 1951.
36 FOUR FOR THE DOCKS
Each of the 'big four' companies had its own locomotives designed for dock shunting. We present photographs of four of them.
38 STEAM-HAULED TO SEAHOUSES
The North Sunderland Railway was built to haul fish from the North Sea coast to the NER main line. Ian Patterson recalls its 50-year struggle as one of Britain's most dilapidated railways.
42 NEVERERS AND PROMENADERS
The 'MNA' was a group of photographers who gained fame as unofficial locomotive cleaners during the last months of steam. In the tradition of anonymity, MNA recalls the last day of steam from an insiders' viewpoint.
46 WORK-SHADOWING WITH `H.G. FORSYTHE`
The man behind the pen-name 'H.G. Forsythe,' Carl Stratmann, spent a morning in 1961 watching Reading driver Jack Gardner prepare his 'Castle' for work on the 'Continental.'
50 DORSET REVISITED 1958
Inveterate traveller James Tawse takes off for previously uncharted trackage in 'Hardy country' travelling by Southern Region express from Waterloo-Weymouth at the start of a visit to the Swanage and Bridport branch lines.
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