Backtrack | June 2022
June 2022
Up and under at Worting Junction- colour spread by Alan Reeve at the junction of the Southampton and Exeter lines on the South Western main line.
The Fort William–Mallaig line in 1986 - some reflections by Alan Taylor.
More Frustrations of Fuel Efficiency - Part One: Miles Macnair looks at problems of incomplete combustion.
Memories of Angerstein Wharf - recollections by Bob Judge of the Thames-side permanent way works in South London.
Blyth Spirit - Iain Kitt describes how a 'ghost line; in Northumberland is coming back to life.
Keeping the Goods and Parcels moving - three colour pages from the Simon Lathlane collection.
Back on the Erewash in 1968 - Richard Clarke reflects on working in signal boxes on the Erewash Valley main line between Chesterfield and Trent Junction.
Ingleton - Forgotten Frontier - David Joy looks at the Clapham to Low Gill route which could have formed a main line to Scotland.
The LMS Garratts at large - archive photographs from the Pendragon Collection.
Royal Trains - photo feature on Royal Train journeys from 1967 to 2012
London Midland & Scottish - The Camping Coach Behemoth: Mike Fenton concludes his account of the LMS holiday scheme through to the Second World War and beyond.
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The specialist magazine was first published in 1986 for the purpose of ‘recording the history of Britain’s railway’ - the magazine’s strapline - and it is now published by Pendragon Publishing. Dropping every month, Backtrack magazine is your monthly dose of railway nostalgia and historical insight.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Backtrack June 2022.