Steam World Magazine

20 May 2022

• Survival of the Fittest?: Elderly locomotives what survived as last of their kind • A day trip to Chalford • Surprised by steam in Scotland’s far north • East Coast Main Line floods 1948, part 2 • Working as a steam raiser at Rose Grove shed • Where it all began for me? The final part of Chris Leigh’s recollections • Beautiful ballast: the days when railways were maintained by hand and on foot • Last of the summer wine: frantic shed bashing efforts to obtain haulage before the end of steam PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers letters and Crossword