Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.
Steam Days covers the six regions of British railways in each edition; Western, Southern, London, Midland, Eastern, and Scottish, with the occasional article on Irish railways and the industrial scene.
Packed with fully illustrated articles, Steam Days also covers the history of the railways of Great Britain from the early days of the 1800s through to the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968.
The brand new September edition of Steam Days includes:
Travels with unmodified Bulleid Pacifics
With sightings always a highlight of spotting days on the Oxted lines, Nick Hodges went on to seek out runs behind nine of these locomotives in the last two years of their BR use.
Leominster, Ludlow and Clee Hill sub-sheds and their duties
Steve Bartlett looks at these rarely visited facilities on or near the GWR & LMS Joint main line between Hereford and Shrewsbury.
Steam Days in Colour – 213: The versatile Fowler ‘Jinty’ 0-6-0Ts
A fleet of 422 locomotives dating from 1924-31, even in the BR era theses ‘3Fs’ enjoyed diverse tasks, from branch passenger work, station pilot duty, trip freights, banking and even on hire to the National Coal Board.
If you’d like to read the September issue of Steam Days, it is available to order here; alternatively, reap the benefits with a subscription and have it delivered straight to your door every month.
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