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

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CALL ATTENTION • Another day, another bridge - Chris Leigh calls attention to more bridge stories and more besides.

….and one not yet revived

Brunel – Action Man!

Greatest wooden bridge

When's an ‘8F’ not an ‘8F’?

Narrow gauge in the street

WATCHING THE BROMSGROVE BANKERS • Bob Saxby first discovered the joys of watching trains climb the Lickey Incline in 1952. As he found, it was a location that never lost its attraction

THE MAUNSELL ‘Q’ 0-6-0S • Richard Maunsell produced some superb designs during his time in charge of the Southern Railway's locomotive fleet… but, as Richard Derry explores, the ‘Qs’ weren't one of them

GOLDEN WAS THE VALLEY • There's more than one ‘Golden Valley’; the GWR had at least two. Chris Leigh was drawn to the one between Sapperton and Stonehouse, for more than one reason

GREAT SHOT!

ON GIFFORD'S COAT TAILS • Peter Tilley describes how he and friend Dick Hodgkiss found solace after the end of BR steam in the local industrial scene

THEY ALSO SERVED… • As the world celebrates the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ Day in 2025, Richard Foster takes a look at the British locomotives that served during the Second World War

THE LAST ‘COAL TANK’ • Memories of the day the last LNWR ‘Coal Tank’ – No. 58926 – brought down the curtain on a South Wales line

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STEAM WORLD CROSSWORD

EX-WORKS AT DERBY • Alstom's Derby factory, the former Midland Railway carriage works, is hosting the ‘Greatest Gathering’, an exhibition of rolling stock that's to celebrate 200 years of Britain's railways, on August 1-3. We take a look at what was gathering around Derby in the 1950s…

SNAP SHOTS OF DAYS PAST • As a 17 year old, Michael Denholm could only afford the infamous paper-based Gratispool film but, despite this, endeavoured to capture the railways of the North East in 1965

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