Feature Articles
Steaming back in the seventies - Preservation 1970-74
19 January 2012
Those who thought that steam died when British Railways ran the ‘15 Guinea Special’ on 11 August 1968 could not have been more wrong.
The end of steam and a new beginning
22 December 2011.
At the end of 1964, there was one preserved standard gauge steam line; five years later, there were only two more; a grand total of 15 miles of heritage steam railway.
The sixties teenage revolution - Railway heritage 1960-64
1 September 2011.
In 1960, the last standard gauge main line steam locomotive rolled off the production line at Swindon Works.
The great beginning! Railway heritage 1940-1959
4 August 2011.
60 YEARS OF PRESERVATION - As we have seen, the idea of saving historic railway locomotives and stock for posterity began with the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway locomotive Invicta in 1839, and began a process which was stepped up as the end of main line steam appeared on the horizon.
Railway heritage: The first century 1839-1939
7 July 2011.
It is now 60 years since the pioneers who turned the Talyllyn Railway into the world’s first line run by volunteers held their inaugural meeting in a Birmingham hotel.
Sixty years on the railways
9 June 2011.
Aled Roberts drove steam trains in North Wales. George Smith tells the story of one man’s railway career
We’re as old as the new Welsh Highland!
12 May 2011.
Editor Robin Jones marks Heritage Railway’s 150th issue by looking back at the very first, which appeared in April 1999, and some of the big stories which broke then.
Eridge at last
14 April 2011.
The Spa Valley Railway has finally run its first passenger trains to Eridge, where the station is shared with national network trains. Achieving this goal needed hard work and delicate political negotiations, as David Staines explains.
Starting young – how I got into photography
17 March 2011.
How do people find themselves drawn to railway photography, sometimes from a very early age? Andrew Strongitharm, 17,... recalls how he was bitten by the bug and the pleasure it gives.
From the archive: Waverley revival
21 February 2011.
Closed on 25 April 1969, the Waverley Route from Carlisle to Edinburgh is still one of the most fondly remembered, as David Cross recounts from the latter days of its operation, with photography by Derek Cross.
Current Issue: 16 Feb 2012
• SCOTSMAN MAY OPEN RAILFEST 2012
• ‘LIZZIE’ EXTRA YEAR ON MAIN LINE
• £1.8M BID TO BUILD B17 MANCHESTER UNITED
• SOUTHERN ANNIVERSARY FAST RUN FOR CLAN LINE
• DNZ QUICK BITTERN RETURN?
• GCR GALA SPECTACULAR
• SNOWY SUNDAY
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 15 March 2012
