Backtrack | December 2023
BACKTRACK - VOLUME 37 No.12 DECEMBER 2023
Across the Sea to Ireland - three pages of vintage Irish locomotives
From Teenage Clerk to Station Master - Michael J. Smith describes his father’s work on the Metropolitan Railway from 1919 to 1965.
Reshaping British Railways as a Business - Geoffrey Skelsey revisits the legacy of Dr. Richard Beeching.
Great Central - Part One: Genesis to Maturity 1836-1957 - Stephen G. Abbott outlines the development of the GCR and its place in our railway network.
The Framingham Flier - Alistair F. Nisbet describes a Great Eastern branch in Suffolk.
When there was work to be done - four colour pages featuring the Great Central’s outstanding O4 Class 2-8-0 freight locomotives.
The Joys of National Service - railway journeys recalled by Michael H. C. Baker
Railtours: A Retrospective View - taken by Paul Chancellor.
Pulverised Fuel for firing locomotives: Part Three - the concluding part of Miles Macnair’s survey of alternative steam-era technology.
Eric Bruton up on the West Coast Route - archive photographs in the northern hills from the early 1950s.
Scottish Sub-Sheds colour photographs by Gavin Morrison at out-stations of larger locomotive depots.
Ardersier and the Fort George branch - a lesser-known Highland Railway branch described by Alistair F. Nisbet.
George Wakefield: The hymn-singing station master - Anthony Dawson introduces a North Staffordshire official with a wide range of community interests.
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