ISSUE 204
July 2 - July 29

News
HEADLINE NEWS 6
British Empire Medals for Julian Birley
and Andrew Dow; National Railway
Museum plans five-month Flying
Scotsman show and another for
Locomotion; Talyllyn general
manager takes over at North
Yorkshire Moors; Brighton Atlantic
chassis wheeled; major award for
Severn Valley; and Underground
steam trip dates confirmed.

NEWS 10
Tornado to haul Forth Bridge 125th
anniversary specials after taking
Scotland by storm; Great Central O4
to steam in Australia; Leander and
Princess Elizabeth set to join Barrow
Hill’s biggest-ever LMS gathering;
South Devon Railway’s special trains
manager named young
preservationist of the year; beach life
for former NRM boss Steve Davies
after Mallard 75; drive your own
trench railway train at Apedale;
decision day for Ashburton’s railway
future; controversial model of
Gresley statue with mallard duck
shown at top London exhibition;
Gloucestershire Warwickshire and
RPSI volunteers win Queen’s Award;
and conservation group demands
Okehampton-Tavistock reopening.

MAINLINE NEWS 56
Tribute to A4 locomotive engineer
Roger Barker; Union of South Africa
fails with hot box; Sir Nigel Gresley
passes gauging test; Reading
incident terminates steam; Tyseley’s
Shakespeare season opens; West
Coast issues apology; and Galatea
heads a convoy up Shap.

WITH FULL REGULATOR 62
Don Benn reports on locomotive
performance in the South West, past
and present.

Regulars

Railwayana 46
Geoff Courtney’s regular column.

Centre 54
Stunning panorama image as
No. 60163 Tornado crosses Culloden
viaduct with Abellio ScotRail’s
‘Highland Caledonian’ from Inverness
to Stirling.

Main Line Tours 66
Steam and heritage diesel
railtours.

Platform 88
Where your views matter most.

Scale Heritage Railway 90
King George V and first Class 20
from Locomotion models.

Up & Running 92
Guide to railways running in July.

The Month Ahead 106
Upcoming galas and events.

Features

48 Famous British locomotive engineers
Charles Benjamin Collett of the Great Western Railway
Cedric Johns looks at the chief mechanical engineer who was considered
a great innovator rather than inventor, but who oversaw the finest
locomotives to emerge from Swindon Works, including the Kings, Castles
and a plethora of pannier tanks.

68 Any volunteers?
Our preserved railways have
traditionally relied on volunteer labour
for every job involved in
running steam trains. Peter Brown
looks into the question of where
future volunteers will come from to
keep the heritage lines going.

76 Locos from Leeds

80 Manchester’s veterans star at Swedish centenary
Colin Tyson reports from the recent
centenary celebrations at the National
Railway Museum of Sweden – which
saw nine centenarians in steam,
including three British-built examples.

84 Great Western meets Great Eastern
The Epping Ongar Railway
extended recently to within 100m of
London Transport’s Epping station
boundary. Geoff Silcock presents a
summer perspective on the line.
The locomotive builders of Leeds
were noted for their First World War
narrow gauge products. Mark
Smithers explains the history of these
designs as recently highlighted at
Apedale.