Backtrack | March 2025
BACKTRACK - Vol.39 No.3 - MARCH 2025
Lost in Kent - colour spread on the Westerham and Hawkhurst branches on their closure in 1961.
Frederick Smith’s Highland Railway ‘River’ Class - an appreciation by David Anderson The Norwich Thorpe RailwayDisaster - 1874 - investigated by Stephen Roberts The Old and New Frodingham - a Lincolnshire depot during the steam/diesel changeover described by Brian Longbone The Tower Subway - a crossing under the Thames described by Alistair F. Nisbet Convening in Carlisle - four pages of 1960s steam colour from the Simon Lathlane Collection Northern Viaducts in the News - Jeffrey Wells looks at six distinctive railway crossings.
The Origins and Building of the Mid Wales Railway - described by Paul Bowen The Birkenhead Joint: The Hooton to West Kirby branch revisited: Part One - a historical survey by Stan Yates Irchester Railway Station - a Northamptonshire portrait by Peter Butler The Last Post - three colour pages of mail trains by Gavin Morrison to mark the end of postal traffic The ’Advent of Modernity’ - By Rail to the Crystal Palace: Geoffrey Skelsey reviews the rise and fall of this famous London exhibition venue
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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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