Backtrack | December 2017
December 2017
Iron ore for Llanwern - colour photos by David Cable of trains between the Port Talbot ore terminal and the steelworks near Newport.
Tackling the Gradient: Part One - Miles Macnair investigates various early ideas to assist locomotives climbing or descending gradients.
Life, Death and Other Matters - the Great Western Railway in 1870: Part One - by Jeffrey Wells
The former LNWR routes out of Leeds - Alan L. Bailey looks at the Copley Hill Low Level Line and the 'Viaduct Line'.
Shunting Dibbles Wharf - colour spread of the LSWR B4 tank that worked at Southampton Docks.
Robberies on the Rails - A. F. Nisbet chronicles a range of criminal activities.
Bushey Water Troughs in LNWR days - archive photos from the 1890s taken by Dr. Tice F. Budden.
Summers out West - three pages of colour by Dick Riley of steam on the GWR West of England line.
The Fate of the Stainmore Route: Part One - Edward Gibbins takes an uncompromising look at why this famous cross-Pennines line had to close.
From the Pendragon Archives: The Vale of Rheidol Railway - the Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge in old photographs.
Secondary Considerations - Trevor Owen's colour photographs of steam on secondary routes around Britain.
Les Beet: Extracts from a Steam Locomotive Driver's Life: Part One - Bruce Laws describes the work of a footplateman at Colwick shed, Nottingham.
Impressions of a young trainspotter on the Hog's Back at Harringay - by Alex Flemming.
Signalling Spotlight - colour shots and descriptions of four North Eastern Railway signal boxes.
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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.
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Artikelen in deze editie
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