Issue 74 2011 « Previous issue | Next issue »
Edited by Paul Karau
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View of 'N' class No. 31857 at Reading South Station
Cover
Partial view of Reading South station c. 1949 taken from Platform 3 showing 'N' class No. 31857
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Postwar Operations at Reading South
p.3
History and development of Reading South station with a focus on operations after the Second World War
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The Bristol Pugs
p.61
Reminiscences of illicit visits to the ex-Midland roundhouse at Barrow Road and the L&Y Pugs seen there. The Pugs were allocated to Barrow Road principally for shunting work on Avonside Wharf. Includes prototype notes for the class
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Railway Bookstalls and their Impact on Reading in Great Britain
p.68
Railways themselves encouraged reading ability, for reading was required to study rule books. Railways also brought about reading on the move with the first bookstall set up at Fenchurch Street station in 1841 and soon copied at other stations by entrepreneurs such as W. H. Smith, H. B. Marshall and John Menzies.
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Leamington Avenue Station
p.72
Photograph with brief description of Leamington Avenue station probably taken shortly after the Grouping showing LNWR 0-8-0, assorted GE, LMS and GWR vans, and GWR Weymouth and Wolverhampton passenger train with two six-wheel siphons pulled by a straight-framed 4-4-0
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Mr. T. R. Perkins Track-basher Extraordinary
p.75
By 1932 and just before his sixtieth birthday, T. R. Perkins achieved the distinction of having travelled over every part of the railways in the British Isles