Backtrack | January 2025
BACKTRACK Vol.39 No.1 JANUARY 2025
Fowler’s Finest…? - colour spread by Gavin Morrison of the LMS Class 4 tanks introduced in 1927.
Railways of the North Pennines Lead Mines - by Rb Langham.
‘The Cheapness of Correspondence’ - James Graham reflects on how the Penny Black postage stamp robbed the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
Mixed Trains - Peter Tatlow sets out to clarify what this term means.
How Four became One: Part One - Simon Lilley looks at the companies behind the provision of electrical equipment for the modernisation of the railways.
The Brighton Atlantics - photographs from the Pendragon Archive The Great Western Diesel Railcars - four colour pages showing these pioneers of modernity from 1934.
Railways and Edinburghshire - an historical survey by Leonard Rogers of an area much of which is now identified as Midlothian.
A Selection of 4-4-0s in Ireland - portrayed in three pages of colour photographs.
From Hurstbourne and Andover to Kimbridge Junction - Part Two of Bruce Laws’s history of this Hampshire secondary route.
2-10-2s in Trouble - Philip Atkins describes the fate of post-war exports from British locomotive builders.
Tunnels in the Churnet Valley - Engineering a North Staffordshire Railway line described by Mike G. Fell.On sale 12th December
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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.
35 years later and Backtrack has firmly established itself as the authority on topics such as the history of Britain and Ireland’s train stations, railway bridges, signalling, biographies, train services and staff recollections - all of which regularly appear in the magazine. Backtrack's contributors include many of today's leading railway history writers and the magazine has a reputation for being of the highest quality.
With a multitude of unmissable monthly features, every issue aims to chronicle and record part of the history of Britain’s railway system. Every issue contains a dozen or so large articles that focus on a particular line or area in British railway history.
Whether you’re into early railway history from the 'pre-Stephenson' era, steam, diesel or electric locomotive you’ll find every era covered in minute detail - from railway company history, railway carriages and wagons, railway stations, railway ships, hotels and road vehicles, railway economic and social history and railway publicity and advertising.
A Backtrack digital magazine subscription is your go-to for railway history:
- Britain's leading historical railway magazine
- Delving into the era of horse-drawn tramroads up to locomotives and rolling stock
- History of lines, the social, political, financial, engineering and labour aspects of the railway
- Archive black and white quality images and historical colour coverage of the railway scene
- The history of train stations, railway bridges, signalling, biographies and train services
- Contributors include many of today's leading railway history writers
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Articles dans ce numéro
Vous trouverez ci-dessous une sélection d'articles dans Backtrack January 2025.