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Steam World #136 October 1998 BR automatic warning system Southern King Arthur T
Steam World October 1998
4 COMMENT
The Editor considers the problem of preserving historic railway carriages and highlights the case of some unique Gresley vehicles which ought to be at the top of any list of priorities.
6 CALL ATTENTION
A couple of novelty rail vehicles appear in this month's 'CA' together with a very popular 'Castle' and the curious case of a 'WD' 2-8-0 cut up by mistake.
16 SUNDAY BEST
In the days when BR ran inexpensive Sunday excursion trains, P. Heath took advantage of some bargain outings to chase locomotives which he would not otherwise have seen.
26 THE STARVIS DIARIES - 1958
Last year Steam World featured extracts from the diaries of Camden top link driver Bill Starvis. John Clarke selects some entries from the notebooks which were kept meticulously in case 'evidence' was ever needed.
28 THREE SUB-DEPOTS OF THE WESTERN REGION
Photographer Paul Leavens provides a glimpse o three of the smaller Western Region depots and reveals their contents on one day in 1957.
32 REVIEWS
More books and video programmes come under the scrutiny of Steam World's reviewers.
34 TAMWORTH - 1928
In the days when the Tamworth field was still allotments the Aerofilms photographer captured this splendid view of the station.
36 DORSET REVISITED - 1958
In the second and final part of his feature on a major tour of 'Hardy Country' James Tawse returns to London by way of the Western Region.
42 A WORKS VISIT WITH 'H.G. FORSYTHE.'
Photographer Carl Stratmann took a tour of Swindon works in 1959 as the last of the '9F' 2-10-0s were being built.
45 STEAM WORLD READER OFFERS
A special selection of books and video
programmes available through your favourite magazine.
46 PLATFORM
The readers letters page with comment and supplementary information on recent Steam World articles.
48 SWINDON'S LAST STAND
In the second part of his examination of the Hawksworth 'County' 4-6-0s, J.K. Lewis charts their early years in service and the modifications which were made
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