Contents Issue 185 January 16 – February 12, 2014

News

6 HEADLINE NEWS
Bluebell and South Devon railways hit by
floods; preservation’s first fireman John Snell
found dead at home; physical work on the
Great Central Railway’s £1 million
Loughborough bridge begins; and how you
can buy one of the six Mallard 75 Great
Gathering headboards.

10 NEWS
Mallard 75 tuns in £497,000 profit – with
one event still to go; latest pictures of Flying
Scotsman overhaul at Bury; steam to return
to London Underground’s Chesham branch
in August; job cuts loom at National Railway
Museum through government cutbacks;
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe to head D-Day
special on June 6; tributes to North
Yorkshire Moors Railway founder Tom
Salmon and his wife, and narrow gauge
pioneer Ron Redman; preservationists in
Queen’s New Year’s Honours list; Europe’s
last steam-hauled main line commuter
trains; end to semaphore signalling on
Southern Region’s East Coastway; bumper
year for heritage lines as several break
passenger records; and the owner of the
A1 nameplate found in a pond by sea scouts
is discovered.

Regulars

54 CENTRE
Peter Holland’s view of Maunsell S15 4-6-0
No. 847 climbing Freshfield bank on the
Bluebell Railway takes centre stage.

62 MAIN LINE NEWS
Investigation underway into Tangmere
connecting rod mishap; tour operator
Roger Hardingham makes comeback and
plans three main line trips to Bluebell Railway;
A4 Sir Nigel Gresley to run to North Norfolk
gala; Clun Castle’s 1964 record to be
remembered by anniversary run.

68 MAIN LINE ITINERARY
Brian Sharpe’s definitive guide to steam and
heritage modern traction railtours in the
coming month.

75 RAILWAYANA
Latest auction prices and news.

88 SCALE HERITAGE RAILWAY
Bluebell Dukedog in 00 and Hornby’s two
Duke of Gloucesters.

95 REVIEWS
New books, DVDs and rail atlases.

98 PLATFORM
Where your views matter the most.

100 UP & RUNNING
Brian Sharpe’s complete listing of museums
and operational heritage lines.

106 THE MONTH AHEAD
Our new at-a-glance guide to the big
events coming up in the next four weeks,
with Heritage Railway, as usual, bringing
unrivalled coverage.

Features

42 Preservation Retrospective 1964
J Crosse looks back 50 years to the events of
1964 that helped shape today’s preservation
motive power scene.

49 2014 events guide
Brian Sharpe’s indispensable guide to all the
enthusiast events on the heritage lines for the
whole year.

70 Snowdon from behind the scenes
The Snowdon Mountain Railway is more than
just a railway up a mountain. Juliet Eden is a
professional photographer living in South Wales
who was granted access to the railway and its
workshops to produce a photographic record of
a day on the railway.

76 Rail trail
Eight pages of inspiration for choice
destinations for steamy holidays both abroad
and closer to home.

85 Box signals 20 years of visitors
They say that as you get older birthdays are best
forgotten, but Peter Brown reports on one
milestone that sailed quietly by without
mention; the 20 years that Exeter West
signalbox has been open to visitors at
Crewe Heritage Centre.

92 Recalling the days of £4 nameplates,
£1 works plates, and £5 clocks
Keith Buckle, who died in 2010 at the age of
75, was for decades one of the most
respected and knowledgeable figures in the
railwayana movement. Over many years he
kept a meticulous record of his
correspondence with BR concerning the
purchase of such memorabilia as nameplates
and cabside numberplates, and his family
has now released that collection exclusively
to Heritage Railway, as senior contributing
writer Geoff Courtney reports.