IN ISSUE:

BRIEF ENCOUNTER’ AT ACHNASHEEN
Eric Stuart shines a spotlight on a long-standing restaurant car exchange at an isolated station on the Kyle of Lochalsh route, a very busy 15 minutes.

STEAM DAYS IN COLOUR 197: RETFORD – AN EAST COAST MAIN LINE CROSSROADS
Famed for its flat crossing where the Sheffield-Lincoln route crossed the East Coast main line at right angles until 1965, we look at the interaction and we look at the interaction and variety of these two routes in the last years of steam.

OLD BUILD – NEW BUILD GWR
David Bradshaw reveals how arguably ‘forgotten’ locomotives are at the heart of the recreation of GWR types thought to have been lost forever.

HE LIFE AND TIMES OF ‘N15’ SIR LAMORAK
The Urie and Maunsell ‘King Arthur’ class 4-6-0s were a mainstay of Southern passenger services for over three decades. Andrew Wilson uncovers the working life of one of the last at work.