June 2023

STEAM WORLD JUNE 2023 ISSUE (on sale 19th May):

• A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH IN 1950: Bob Poynter recalls the variety of steam locomotives to be seen at Plymouth’s GWR and SR stations in the 1950s

• PORTRAIT OF A ‘DUCHESS’: Printing historian John Hutchinson tells the story of Stanier ‘Pacific’ No. 46521 City of Nottingham

• STOP! LOOK BOTH WAYS: As a youngster, Martin Leech used the Chalford valley foot crossings as vantage points for photography

• TO NORTHERN REACHES: Colin Boocock recalls childhood journeys on the ‘Pines Express’

• DOWN TO THE SEA AT LOOE: Chris Leigh takes a holiday-season outing to one of Cornwall’s oldest branch lines

• COLLISION AT CHARFIELD: Greg Morse explains the circumstances which resulted in the three train pile-up at Charfield in 1928

• YORKSHIRE’S NAMED TRAINS: Gavin Morrison’s named train images

• LAST STEAM ON THE LYMINGTON BRANCH: Stephen Widdowson made several calls to the Lymington Pier branch as it transitioned from vintage 0-4-4Ts to BR Standard tank locomotives

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