June 2022

• Survival of the Fittest?: Elderly locomotives what survived as last of their kind

• A day trip to Chalford

• Surprised by steam in Scotland’s far north

• East Coast Main Line floods 1948, part 2

• Working as a steam raiser at Rose Grove shed

• Where it all began for me? The final part of Chris Leigh’s recollections

• Beautiful ballast: the days when railways were maintained by hand and on foot

• Las of the summer wine: frantic shed bashing efforts to obtain haulage before the end of steam

PLUS: Comment, Great Shot!, Call Attention, Readers letters and Crossword