Steam Days

Steam Days is a monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. Each issue covers the six regions of British Railways: Western, Southern, London, Midland, Eastern, and Scottish, with the occasional article on Irish railways and the industrial scene. These well illustrated articles in the magazine cover the history of the railways of Britain from the early days of the 1800s through to the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968.

Steam Days

TRAINS of thought

The locomotives of Thornton Junction’s final steam shed • Roger Griffiths and John Hooper track the Thornton Junction allocation from July 1933 until the demise of the LNER-built engine shed in 1970.

It’s time to be out and about

Happy afternoons on Hemerdon • Living just a short cycle ride away, the teenage Peter Kerslake enjoyed many a trip to the heart of the Up climb of the former GWR main line away from Plymouth, which ascended from the River Plym, started in earnest at Plympton, was 1-in-41 at its steepest, and routinely saw heavier trains banked or piloted.

On the tracks of the Wyvern: Through the Aire valley • Observations of former Midland Railway metals are recalled in North Eastern Region times as Richard A Dangerfield takes in trips between Bradford (Forster Square) and both Skipton and Leeds.

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Southern additions to the National Collection • Colin Boocock offers a personal perspective on the growth of part of the nation’s official collection of preserved steam locomotives. All photographs by the author unless credited otherwise.

Steaming off to Swavesey • Looking to inspire railway modellers in the mid-1950s, Chris Gordon Watford ventured out to the Cambridge-St Ives-March route to record a typical former Great Eastern Railway country station.

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