Contents Issue 192 July 31-August 27, 2014
Cover
On its last run before
going on display in a
Warner Brothers’
theme park, GWR
4-6-0 No. 5972 Olton
Hall, running as
Hogwarts Castle,
passes Starricks Farm
with the Railway
Touring Company’s
‘Wizard Express’ on
July 12. DAVID PRICE

News

6 HEADLINE NEWS
Flying Scotsman new setback as frame
sections need replacing for £87K; P2 frames
commissioned at Darlington; mass walk-out
at West Somerset meeting, Heritage Railway
sponsors Etches Park depot open day to
mark Derby 175, new NYMR Whitby
platform set for August opening, LMS Scot
may run out of St Pancras and black
Morayshire in frame for GCR gala

9 COMPETITION
 WIN THREE PAIRS OF
TICKETS FOR LONDON
UNDERGROUND’S AUGUST
STEAM TRIPS ON THE
HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE
AND CHESHAM BRANCH

10 NEWS
West Somerset to reconsider Taunton
extension; NYMR commissions Falsgrave
signal; Mallard 75 benefited heritage lines
across UK; SOS plea to save Somerset &
Dorset bridge; Britain’s biggest steam
locomotive runs again... in a back garden;
pressure to save Swindon’s Railway Institute;
Great Central receives £1 million
Government grant; new LNWR George the
Fifth 4-4-0 Prince George name unveiled;
Prince Charles and Camilla become
Gloucestershire Warwickshire life members;
steam locomotive lost in swamp returns to
steam; LMS Patriot to appear at Great Dorset
steam fair, ‘D-Day’ appeal for Dame Vera
Lynn, Olton Hall last trip sparks steam ban
and the flower allergy lady who retrained as
a steam driver!

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Regulars

54 CENTRE
Mark Fielding’s view of Tornado in the Lune
Gorge takes centre stage this month.

56 MAIN LINE NEWS
King Edward II and British India Line listed
for ‘Great Britain VIII’; St Blazey turntable
working again and 50th anniversary ‘Atlantic
Coast Express’ to run to Penzance.

64 MAIN LINE ITINERARY
Brian Sharpe’s definitive guide to railtours in
the coming month.

72 RAILWAYANA
Geoff Courtney’s definitive round-up of
auction prices.

74 PLATFORM
Where your views matter the most.

90 OFF THE SHELF
The latest book and DVD reviews.

92 SCALE HERITAGE RAILWAY
Superb new Hornby weathered GWR Grange.

94 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

66 GO GREAT WESTERN,
GO CORNISH RIVIERA
Summer trains promoted by the Great
Western Railway carried tens of thousands
of passengers to resorts in Devon and
Cornwall for a period of some 50 years
before cars, caravans and coaches clogged
roads leading to the South West. Cedric
Johns recounts the history of one of Britain’s
classic holiday trains in the days before
package holidays to the Mediterranean.

76 GOING DUTCH
It is very interesting to see how different
countries exhibit their railway history in
national railway museums. John Titlow
travelled to Utrecht and found that what the
Dutch NRM may lack in quantity of
locomotives, it makes up for in its creativity
in two unique ways.

84 WHERE HAVE ALL THE RAILWAY
POSTER ARTISTS GONE?
One of the successes of 21st-century railway
publishing has been the Poster to Poster
series written, and published, by Richard and
Judi Furness of Gloucester. The seven
volumes cover railway posters from every
corner of England, Scotland and Wales
dating from the earliest days, and have been
hailed as the definitive work on the subject.
Artist Stephen Millership, who was
commissioned by Richard to produce a
modern railway poster of Stonehenge based
on old principles, reveals his interest in
railways and his pleasure in producing such
posters.

88 AN UNLIKELY STEAM RAILWAY
ON THE SUNNY SOUTH
Geoff Courtney came across the scant
remains of one of Britain’s most obscure
standard gauge steam lines, the Hundred of
Manhood & Selsey Tramway – which might
have once been home to what became the
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway –
while holidaying on the south coast.