Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.
Here’s what to expect this month…
Where would we be without the ‘Yanks’? The story of a USA Tank and its buddies
A former USATC S100 locomotive initially preserved on his home patch, John H Bird tells the eventful story of No. 30064 through to current times, the plot enriched by an overview of these 0-6-0Ts and particularly those purchased by the Southern Railway.
North Wales coast main line summer Saturday traffic: 1954-63
Inspired by his role within a coast line traffic survey undertaken on the busiest day for holiday traffic in 1954, Chris Forrest delivers his data from that day, including some ex-GWR sightings, and offers the ongoing picture through to August 1963 with further observations of high-season long distance passenger work in and around Chester
STEAM DAYS in Colour 235: Glasgow’s north side ‘Caley’ suburban lines
North of the Clyde, the Caledonian and North British railways had rival suburban networks, the former a cross-city operation via Glasgow Central Low Level that skirted dock land to reach such places as Dumbarton and Balloch, this primary route closing from October 1964 when BR instead retained the rival NBR routes having applied its ‘Blue Train’ upgrade. Away from the subterranean sections of the city, we cover some long-lost services, including feeder lines to the core route.
Caynham Court – the Lentz valve gear-fitted Saint
Notable within the Great Western Railway locomotive development story thanks to its modification under C B Collett in 1931, Andrew Wilson assesses the career of the lone GWR engine to run with Lentz rotary cam poppet valve gear.
And there’s lots more to delve in to, but you’ll have to find that out for yourself! If you’d like to read the June issue of Steam Days magazine, then you can cut to the chase and order yours here, or better yet save those pennies and subscribe to Steam Days magazine.
