Backtrack | June 2026
BACKTRACK VOL.40 NO.6 - JUNE 2026
To and from Bournemouth West - colour spread by Gavin Morrison The Manson 4-6-0s of the Glasgow & South Western Railway - profiled by David Anderson The ‘Jeeps’ of the LMS Northern Counties Committee: Part One: The last survivors - Conrad Natzio explores the end of a long road and how it was achieved in Northern Ireland.
The Wantage Tramway: Part Two - Bruce Law concludes his history with a look at its operation, decline and closure.
Given a Crosti look - colour photos of the Crosti-boilered BR 9F locomotives.
The Conference of Motive Power Officers: Part Four - J. Crosse continues his trawl through their deliberations in the early 1950s.
The ‘Dean Goods’ - colour spread of the long-serving Great Western Railway engines.
Baltic Tanks - archive photographs of four designs of powerful pre-grouping 4-6-4 tank locomotives.
‘Sympathetic Extortion?’ - Adrian Gray considers why compensation for railway accidents became so controversial in 1866.
Picturesque Staffordshire - Mike G. Fell shows how it was portrayed by the North Staffordshire Railway.
This is what it says - colour photos of some long-lasting metal railway notices.
The Life and Times of Marston Green - Nicholas Daunt describes a wayside station on the Euston–Birmingham route.
AC:DC–DC:AC: Part One - Stephen G. Abbott reviews power systems and their changes on Britain’s electrified railway network.
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