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…
Two Somerset & Dorset school trips
Travelling with the Cotham Grammar Railway Society, John Buxton made two
journeys from Bristol (Temple Meads) to Bournemouth via Bath (Green Park)
and the Somerset & Dorset line in 1965, upbeat in May but melancholic in
December with the S&D down at heel and thought unlikely to survive the year.
Industrial interlude: 1965
For many, the quest to witness steam at work in 1965 embraced the industrial
scene, which offered variety in motive power, the type of traffic, and the setting,
be it within an industrial complex, urban or rural.
Summer Saturday at Ryde St John’s Road shed
An extraordinary invite to spend the night and early shift on shed at Ryde saw
young enthusiast Andrew Britton at the beating heart of Isle of Wight locomotive
operations amid its provision of motive power for services on the last Saturday
of June 1965.
British Rail – a future-proof British Railways?
A decade on from the Modernisation Plan, Maurice Hawthorne looks at BR upon
its rebranding and corporate facelift of 1965, with motive power and some
working practices in transition and network changes ongoing
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 July 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.
