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

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Where would we be without the ‘Yanks’? The story of a USA Tank and its buddies • A former USATC S100 locomotive initially preserved on his home patch, John H Bird tells the eventful story of No. 30064 through to current times, the plot enriched by an overview of these 0-6-0Ts and particularly those purchased by the Southern Railway.

North Wales coast main line summer Saturday traffic: 1954-63 • Inspired by his role within a North Wales coast main line traffic survey undertaken on the busiest day for holiday traffic in 1954, Chris Forrest delivers his data from that day, including some ex-GWR duties, and offers the ongoing picture through to August 1963 with further observations of high-season long-distance passenger work in and around Chester.

In Colour 235: Glasgow’s north side ‘Caley’ suburban lines • North of the Clyde, the Caledonian and North British railways had rival suburban networks, the former a cross-city operation via Glasgow Central Low Level that skirted dock land to reach such places as Dumbarton, and then Balloch over Joint metals, this primary route closing in October 1964, BR having opted to instead keep the rival NBR routes and having already introduced ‘BlueTrain’ operation there. Away from the subterranean section beneath the city, we view some of the latter days of steam on these lines.

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Caynham Court – the Lentz valve gear fitted Saint • Notable within the GreatWestern Railway locomotive development story thanks to its modification under C B Collett in 1931, Andrew Wilson assesses the career of the lone GWR locomotive to run with Lentz rotary cam poppet valve gear.

Haughley – a busy Great Eastern Junction • On the Liverpool Street-Norwich main line three miles north of Stowmarket, the diverging route through Bury St Edmunds for either Cambridge or Ely and March resulted in huge activity at this Suffolk junction. Swedebasher undertakes an operational Monday-Friday account of booked traffic in the mid-1950s, as well as singling out certain duties and traffic flows of specific interest.

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