Steam World

Steam World is Britain's best selling historical railway magazine. Covering the magical times when steam railways were the lifeblood of the country. It features first-hand accounts from drivers, firemen, BR managers and enthusiasts alike. Featuring magnificent photography from the fifties and sixties, it will bring back wonderful memories coupled with inside information of what it was really like to work, travel and play on the world's best railway.

Steam World

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UNDER-RATED? ‘4MT’ 2-6-0 PERFORMANCES • BR’s ‘MT’ 2-6-0s were rarely featured in the ‘racing pages’ of the railway press but they were capable of some very fine performances, particularly those on the Southern Region, as Andrew James explains

A TOWN HOLIDAY RUN-ABOUT TICKET • David Alexander recalls a week in July 1961 when he made use of one of these good value tickets to explore the railways of Lancashire and the Lake District

DAVID PERCIVAL'S BROWNIE REFLEX'IONS • This feature is published in tribute to the late David Percival, who reflects on his early photographic exploits with a simple Kodak Brownie Reflex camera

MY TOP TEN COUNTDOWN NO. 2 COLLETT’S ‘CASTLE’ CLASS 4-6-0

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A SATURDAY SHED BASH • Paul Cooper describes a weekend trip to London on August 7 1964 to try out his new camera… and the results have only just been scanned, 62 years later

THE POLMADIE NINE • David Anderson profiles the nine ‘Princess Coronations' that spent the 1940s and '50s based in Glasgow

PLATFORM • send your letters to Steam World, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton South gate, Peterborough PE2 6GX or steamworld@choicemag.co.uk

STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

MY WORK AS A FIREMAN • Dave Simpson recalls his ten year career at Leicester shed, from 1946 to 1956, starting as a cleaner

GAVIN GOES NORTH EASTERN… IN COLOUR • Gavin Morrison returns to the railways of the north-east of England, this time in colour

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