Steam World

Steam World is Britain's best selling historical railway magazine. Covering the magical times when steam railways were the lifeblood of the country. It features first-hand accounts from drivers, firemen, BR managers and enthusiasts alike. Featuring magnificent photography from the fifties and sixties, it will bring back wonderful memories coupled with inside information of what it was really like to work, travel and play on the world's best railway.

Steam World

KINGS SUTTON – A FAVOURITE PLACE

CALL ATTENTION • Richard Foster and Chris Leigh follow up some recent features about favourite places.

A TRIBUTE TO KEN ROBERTS • Steam World contributor Ken Roberts died on May 26 2024, in his home town of Blackburn. Nigel Harris salutes a remarkable man and his photographic legacy.

COLIN SAW GREAT PICTURES… • The ’60s were not yet ‘swinging’ when Chris Leigh joined Ian Allan Ltd in 1963. Things soon started to happen in railway publishing, however, and one person brought a sea-change in railway photographs and how they were presented on the printed page.

CROSS-COUNTRY CO-OPERATION • Rivals or friends? Jeremy Clarke uses Southern/Western inter-regional workings to explore the co-operation that existed between railways and regions

PLATFORM • send your letters to Steam World, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton South gate, Peterborough PE2 6GX or steamworld@choicemag.co.uk

STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

GREAT SHOT!

BROTHERS IN ARMS • Peter and Paul Cooper would often go line-siding together. Two brothers, same location - but very different results. Paul Cooper presents a selection of their images, starting at Shap on July 20 1967…

TRAIN TIMING IN THE 1940S • The final years of the ‘Big Four’ are not known for fast running. Chris Meredith presents four logs from the late Dr John A Dew covering journeys he made on the GWR, LMS, LNER and Southern between 1941 and 1947

THE ILL-FATED ‘JACOBITE’ • Gavin Morrison was there to witness what was supposed to be the last day of steam on the West Highland, a day when nothing seemed to go to plan…

LAST YEARS OF THE ‘GREYHOUNDS’ • All 66 Drummond ‘T9s’ survived into BR days but had all gone by the end of 1961. Peter R. Cooper examines the gradual run-down of these celebrated 4-4-0s

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