ISSUE 206
August 27 - September 23

HEADLINE NEWS 6
Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35006
Peninsular & Oriental SN Co. runs
again after 51 years; Poppy Line
plans steam diners to Cromer and
Norwich; Flying Scotsman show
extends to Shildon; Witherslack Hall
returns to steam on Great Central
Railway and Tornado on standby for
Borders Railway royal reopening train
after A4 runs a hotbox in Devon.

NEWS 10
Celebrity engines join Severn Valley
Railway 50th party; rail company may
relay SVR Stourport-on-Severn
branch; Penrhyn 50th theme at
Threlkeld and remembering the
greatest slate quarry in North Wales;
wallet lost on Great Central found on
North Norfolk 30 years on; National
Railway Museum given a Eurostar
powercar; design first in London
Transport Museum’s new steam
season; frames for new Great Central
locomotive cut; first track laid at
Llangollen Railway’s permanent
Corwen Central station; Teifi Valley
Railway rebuilders make national
appeal; ‘finest ever’ model of historic
9F set for £50,000 sale and the many
railway connections to the world’s
first inland surfing resort.

MAIN LINE NEWS 56
Will routes become barred to steam?
the Queen to officially open Borders
Railway with special royal train on
September 9; Hastings DEMU
recovers damaged train; A1 Pacific
Tornado to head King’s Cross to
Darlington 25th anniversary special
and Battle of Britain Pacific Tangmere
fails on Hemerdon bank.

WITH FULL REGULATOR 62
Don Benn reports on No. 46115 Scots
Guardsman working ‘The Dalesman’

Regulars

Centre spread 54
LMS Pacific No. 46233 Duchess of
Sutherland on the West Coast
Main Line, by Karl Heath.

Main Line Tours 66
Steam and heritage diesel railtours.

Railwayana 74
Geoff Courtney’s regular column.

Theatre review 86
The Railway Children at York.

Platform 88
Where your views matter most.

Up & Running 92
Guide to railways running this
month.

The Month Ahead 106
Upcoming galas and events.

Features

 Sir Nigel Gresley: London & North Eastern Railway
In the series on Big Four Chief Mechanical Engineers, Brian Sharpe looks
at the career of Sir Nigel Gresley; was he the greatest of them all?
Barrow Hill  the LMS days
Although a relative newcomer in
preservation terms, Barrow Hill
Roundhouse will stage its biggest
event yet in September. Brian Sharpe
and Geoff Silcock give a foretaste of
what is to come with at least a dozen
LMS locomotives together; a
minimum of nine in steam.

Half century in the Valley
The Severn Valley Railway has been
celebrating its 50th anniversary year
in style. In a trip down Memory Lane,
Paul Appleton looks at some of its
landmark achievements.

The three ‘new’ Royal Scots
Few steam locomotives carrying
the same name and number can
claim to have been three
substantially different locomotives,
but Royal Scot not only exchanged
identities with another of the same
class, but was effectively rebuilt
twice, in both cases using virtually
nothing of the previous
locomotive. Eric Muckley
elaborates