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Steam World #147 September 1999 Weymouth Quay Clapham Juntion GW/GC
Steam World September 1999
4 COMMENT
Rail travel can still be an adventure for today's car-borne kids, contends Editor Barry McLoughlin.
6 CALL ATTENTION
The day the unfortunate Frilsham Manor came all wheels' off the rails in Wales is recalled in our monthly round-up of the arcane and the unusual.
8 STEAM 'TWIXT WALES AND ENGLAND
Regular Steam World contributor James G. Tawse begins a three-part series on one of his marathon 'bashes', this time over the stunning Central Wales line.
14 GREAT SHOT
Another piece of perfection from Keith Pirt, this month with a Southern theme.
22 GREAT DAYS AT 'NOTTINGHAM VIC'
In the second part of his elegant memoir of the former GC/GN station, David Page looks back on the winding-down of steam services in the area.
28 THE BOLTON BANKER'S TALE
Would-be banker Tom Heavyside's choice of college was determined not by the courses - but by the proximity of the West Coast Main Line!
32 Go EAST, YOUNG MAN!
R.H.N. Hardy continues his absorbing account of the former Great Eastern section of the LNER with an examination of the two varieties of the 'N7' tanks.
38 AIR-SMOOTHED STEAM: BULLEID'S SR LIGHT 'PACIFICS'
Unkindly dubbed 'Spam cans' by their critics, the Bulleid light 'Pacifics' were SR mainstays up to the end of steam in 1967. Steam World salutes them in their original, air-smoothed form.
48 DARKROOM DISCOVERIES
Today, special night shoots are arranged for photographers. In BR steam days lensmen had to take pot luck after dark. We feature a selection of pictures from the camera of J.A. Oldfield.
50 PLATFORM
Correspondence from across the world, rounded up in our monthly readers' forum.
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