IN ISSUE:

GLINT: A PERSONAL VIEW
In words and pictures, lifelong railway enthusiast and photographer JohnTitlow, who has contributed to Heritage Railway since its inaugural issue,shares his tips on how to capture glint in images, using a reflection of thesun bouncing off a train

HERITAGE UNDER THREAT: LIVERPOOL’S EDGE HILL CUTTING
Publicity for the planned 2025 bicentenary celebrations of the Stockton &Darlington Railway, the world’s first public steam-hauled passenger line, is gaining momentum by the week. At the same time, priceless remains of the world’s first inter-city main line, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, which
opened five years later, have not only been forgotten but are now under threat, writes Anthony Sawson

SIXTY YEARS OF BLUEBELL MEMORIES
Bluebell Railway carriage and wagon department volunteer Keith Leppard has produced a second and expanded volume of his Bluebell Railway Recollections to mark the ground-breaking Sussex heritage line’s 60th anniversary

HOLDING ON TO A DECADES-OLD DREAM!
With fond memories of the unrebuilt Patriots which had all vanished by late 1962, Pete Kelly looks forward to the completion of the LMS-Patriot Project’s No. 5551 The Unknown Warrior