Backtrack | December 2024
BACKTRACK VOL.38 No.12 DECEMBER 2024
Faithful in their Fashion - three colour pages of the Midland/LMS Class 2 4-4-0 locomotives.
‘Only in America’ - Mike Norman upholds the legacy of Timothy Hackworth from the early design of steam locomotives.
The Lake Lock Rail Road: The first public railway? - Anthony Dawson looks at an early industrial railway in Yorkshire which might hold a special claim to a place in history.
The ‘Castles; that never were - Nigel Mildwater considers Great Western Railway boiler development from the ’Stars’ to the ‘Kings’.
Mickle Trafford - Tony Robinson describes ‘a Cheshire junction of many manifestations’.
China Clay - colour photographs by Paul Aitken Wiltshire Ways - archive photographs of lesser-known locations.
A visit to Stoke in May 1932 - some North Staffordshire Railway locomotives from the Anthony Dawson collection.
Capital Gains - and Capital Losses - steam from the Simon Lathlane collection reflecting on the variety to be found at London’s main line termini.
The North British Railway and the Admiralty at Port Edgar - Alistair F. Nisbet shows the railway connection with a Naval establishment on the Firth of Forth.
Principal works of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1890 - described by Jeffrey Wells.
Noted at Newport - three different locomotive classes photographed in colour by Tommy Tomalin.
Cross-country via Bolton - colour spread by Tom Heaviside of Class 47 haulage of Anglo-Scottish long-distance trains.
From Hurstbourne and Andover to Kimbridge Junction and the Longparish branch: Part One - Bruce Laws revisits a London & South Western Railway secondary route in Hampshire.
The railway at Shireoaks, Worksop and Rhodesia - Nottinghamshire signal boxes visited by Peter Butler.
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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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