Cié steam variety in the late 1950s

One of the things I miss most from the current railway scene is our locomotive workshops. They were such fascinating places to visit, because they illustrated perfectly the life story of locomotives f

The article ‘A whirlwind Scottish shed bash: 1965’ (Steam Days, May 2023) reminded me of an epic Scottish shed and line bash I was fortunate enough to undertake in August 1959, while steam was still p

LEFT: D1618, allocated to LMML (London Midland Region, Midland Lines) at Toton, is away from its usual operating sphere as it gingerly crosses a new bridge over what will become the M6. The train is o

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Overhauls, restorations and running notes

A tale of three Saturday visits, the initial two trips were short and rather abortive attempts to cover the most intensively worked of the remaining steam-worked Great Eastern suburban services, with