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Some Items in Steam Days

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Issue Items
2009 December
Issue 244		 Article "Carlisle" includes a view of Canal Junction SB, the roof of No.3 SB, and various signals in and around the area.

Article "Grangemouth Docks" (CR); includes viws of Grangemouth Swing Bridge, No. 1 SB in the mist and a superb view of No. 2 SB.

Photo article "Southern Region Boat Trains" includes view of Shortlands SB (SER 1958).

Article "The Pembroke Dock Branch" includes views at Carmarthen Bridge Junction (SB roof just about visible), Tenby (viaduct and 1956 SB), and Whitland.

Photos: Barnet (GNR 1949), Holbeck High Level (GNR 1950), Leeds Central (1962, 1963), Morley Top SB (GNR 1953), Wakefield Westgate including SB (GNR 1952, 1962).
2009 November
Issue 243		 Article: "A Summer Saturday at Paddington" (GWR 1957) depicts various signals in and around the station.

Article "Nottingham (Great Central)" includes views of GCR drop arm signal posts (1961, 1966), Arkwright Street SB (LNER period), Bagthorpe Junction SB (1932), Nottingham Goods South (?) SB (1947), Nottingham North SB (c1930, 1939), Nottingham South SB (1939), & reproduction of large scale OS maps.

Photo: Bedlay Colliery SB (NCB 1978).

Article: "Four-Coupled to East Grinstead" (LBSCR) includes views of East Grinstead East & West SBs (1955-1963), Groombridge (1963), and Rowfant (1963).

Article: "Gloucester and Cheltenham Revisited" (GWR MR) includes photos: California Crossing SB (MR 1962), Cheltenham Spa Lansdown SB (MR 1960), Cheltenham Malvern Road SB (GWR 1962), Lansdown Junction SB (1960), Tramway Junction 1960) and a suspended signal in Gloucester Eastgate station (1961); also signals at Ashchurch (MR 1961) with the SB ghost like through the smoke, Churchdown (1961), Standish Junction (1960, 1963), and Stroud (GWR 1962).
2009 October
Issue 242		 Article: "Steam Days at Elgin" (HR) includes photos: Elgin & Elgin Centre SB (1934), signals at Elgin (1951), passenger waiting signals at Lhanbryde (1960); and steam coping in 1915 with something modern traction fails at - keeping the service running when the track is flooded.

Article about the Looe Branch (GWR) includes photos: Coombe Junction SB (1961), Liskeard SB (the branch one) (1958), Looe SB (1959).

Article "Chester" (CLC) includes photos : Knutsford (1950) with the SB trying to hide behind a telegraph pole and signals at Northwich (1955).

Photos: signals at York (NER 1924).
2009 September
Issue 241		 Article: "Memories of Wellingborough (MR)": includes photos: Finedon Road (1959), Wellingborough North (1953, 1955), Wellingborough Station (1952); also Wellinborough London Road (LNWR 1964).

Article Ashford (SECR); includes photos: Ashord West Junction (1951, corner of SB just visible), Ashford (B?) (1925), Chartham SB (early 1950s) b (1874), Pluckley (1874), Wye (Edwardian).

Article: Edinburgh to Glasgow Direct (Caledonian Route); includes photos: Auchengray (1949), Bellside Junction, Cleland (1963), Benhar Junction (1963), Carlin Halt (1965), Curriehill (1961), b SB (1964), Edinburgh Princes Street (1910, 1962), Glasgow Central (1921, 1927), West Calder (undated).

Photos: Signals at Handsworth Junction (GWR early 1920s), Kings Cross (GNR 1959, 1961), Severn Tunnel Junction (Middle? 1956).
2009 August
Issue 240		 Photos signals at Dundee Esplanade (NBR), Grantham North SB (GNR 1949), Ilfracombe SB &signals (LSWR 1963), Manchester Victoria (L&YR 1962), North Dock (Llanelly) SB &signals (L&MMR 1904), Rugby No.? (LNWR 1958), signals at Llanelly (GWR c1931), signal at Pontyberem (BPGVR 1909), Thrimby Grange SB (LNWR 1960).
2009 July
Issue 239		 Article “March (GER) and Whitemoor Yard”, includes photos at March and March East Junction, Whitemoor marshalling Yard description, photo of hump tower and track diagram.

Article Kingsbridge Branch (GWR) includes photos of Avonwick (c1952), Brent (1956, 1960), Gara Bridge (1921, 1958), Kingsbridge (1961).

Photos of Ash Junction SB (LSWR-SER 1963), Betchworth GF (SER 1965), Fleetwood SB (LMSR 1936), Greenock (1955), signals at Harrow & Wealdstone (LNWR 1951), signals at Reigate (SER 1962), St. Mary Cray Junction (SECR 1958), Virginia Water (LSWR 1957), signal at b (LNWR 1959).
2009 June
Issue 238		 Article “Tanat Valley Light Railway” including photos of Llynclys Junction (Cambrian) box/signals, open air signal frame at Llangedwyn, GF at Llanrhaiadr, and Porthywain SB.

Article “Bristol MR/LMS” including photos Fishponds (1950), and Kingswood Junction (1936, 1951).

Photos: Chatham (1953), Faversham (LCDR) - unusual two-arm bi-directional semaphore in goods yard, Lincoln Goods (1961); signals at Dunford Bridge (GCR 1845), Grantham (GNR 1962), Herne Hill (1954), Pyewipe Junction (1947).
2009 May
Issue 237		 Photos: Aberbeeg SB (GWR 1958, 1962), signals at Ashford (SER 1959), Askham (FR c1912), signal gantry at Basingstoke (LSWR 1964), Bedlinog SB (TBJR 1959), Doncaster South SB (GNR), Dowlais No 2 (BM/LNWR/TBJt) SB, Finsbury Park No 5 & 6 (GNR) SBs, Ivor Junction (BM/LNWR/TBJt) SB, signals at Marks Tey (GER 1959), signals at Park Junction (GWR 1965), Perry Barr North Junction SB (LNWR 1959), signals at Pontypool Road (GWR 1959), Quakers Yard West SB (GWR 1964), Southampton Central SB (LSWR 1959), Walnut Tree Junction SB (TVR 1965), signals at Werrington (GNR 1959).
2009 April Article "Nottingham Midland" (MR) including photos: signals at Basford Vernon (1953), signals at Beeston South Junction (1964), signals western approach to Nottingham (1956), Radford SB (1959), Sneinton Junction (1952), Trent Station North Junction SB (1947).

Photos: Bonnybridge High SB (NBR), Castlecary (NBR 1966), signals at Croy (NBR), Paddington Departure SB (GWR original 1924), Waterloo SB (SR 1963).
2009 March Colour photo of Carstairs No 2 box.
2009 February ‘The Fallowfield line’ by Eddie Johnson (history of the MSLR Manchester south suburban route, with some details of signalling and b&w distant views of boxes and signals).

b&w photo of East Grinstead South box.

colour photo of Chester No 4 box and LNWR gantry.

Vintage colour painting view of the Brighton side of London Victoria station, depicting LBSCR semaphore gantry surrounded by the catenary of the short-lived overhead electrification system.
2009 January b&w photos of Broom East (LMSR), Broom Junction (LMSR), Dorking Town, Fenny Compton (LMSR), Kineton (SMJR) and Woodford West Junction (SMJR) boxes, and delightful SMJR bracket signals at Olney Branch Junction.
Issue Items
2008 November Article "Branching out to Grangemouth" (CR). Includes photos: Falkirk Grahamstown SB (1957), Grangemouth SB (1955, 1956), Grangemouth No.3 SB, Orchardhall Swing Bridge SB (1962), Swing Bridge East SB (1962), Swing Bridge Junction SB (1962).

Article "Steam Days at Dover" including photos: Archcliffe Junction (1950), Dover Marine (1954), Folkestone Junction SB (1893), Kearsney Junction (1960), Kearsney Loop Junction (1959), Shakespeare SB (1958).

Photos: Belle Isle SB (GNR 1953), Cowley Bridge Junction SB (GWR 1958), Grantham Yard SB (GNR 1953), signals at Great Barr (LNWR 1905), Hayes & Harlington (GWR 1959), signals at Huddersfield Hillhouse MPD (LNWR-L&YR), signals at Stafford No.4 (LNWR), Stoke (summit) SB (GNR 1953), Twyford (GWR 1959).
2008 October Article "Chester" exploring the history of railways in Chester. Incudes severa photos of signal gantrys.

Photos: signal at Bartlow (GER 1958), Moffat branch signal at Beattock (CR 1958), signal gantry by Edinburgh Dalry Road MPD (NBR 1960), signal at Llanbadarn Crossing (GWR 1958), Newton Abbot West SB (GWR 1954), Witham Junction SB (GER 1958).
2008 June Article "1958" includes photos: signal at Ashburton (GWR), Bartlow SB (GER 1958), signals at Cardiff General (GWR), Colchester (GER), signals at Leeds City (Wellington) (LYR), Rumney River Bridge SB (GWR).

Article "Lake District Steam" includes photos: signals and SB at Grange-over-Sands (FR 1963), signals at Workington (LNWR 1963), two way's signals on a single post at an unstated location (PKCR 1963).

Photos: signals at Brotton (NER 1958) signals at Dereham (GER 1962), signals at Haddiscoe HL (GER 1959), signals at Hereford (GWR 1962, 1963), signals at Kingham (GWR 1962), signals at Kings Lynn (GER 1960), signals at Lapworth (GWR 1966), Leeds (Holbeck) SB (1967), Midsomer Norton SB (S&DR 1961), signals at North Elmham (GER 1960), Norwich Thorpe Junction SB (GER), Red Hill Junction (GWR 1962), Spooner Row SB (GER), Swaffham SB (GER 1955), Wells-next-the-Sea (GER 1960).
2008 May Article Coventry (LNWR) includes photos: Canley Gates (1953), Hawksbury Lane (1964), Kenilworth Junction (1950, 1962), Three Spires Junction (1959).

Photos: Balloch Central SB (NBR), Bath Spa SB (GWR 1963), signals at Bournemouth Central (LSWR 1951), Dalreoch Junction SB (NBR 1959), signals at Eastleigh (1952), signal and SB Handsworth Junction (GWR 1961), signals and SB at Knowle & Dorridge (GWR 1957), signals and SB at Thrumpton (GCR 1963), signals and SB at Whisker Hill Junction (GCR 1959, 1964), signals at Widney Manor (GWR 1957), signals at Worting Junction (LSWR 1964).
2008 April Article "Somerset & Dorset Revisited" includes photos: Bath Green Park SB (1963), Blandford SB(1963), Evercreech Junction SB (1963), Radstock SB (1963), Shepton Mallet SB (1963).

Article "By Train to Hayfield" (GCR) includes photos: signals at Hayfield (pre1908), signals at New Mills Central (1951, 1955), New Mills Tunnel End SB (1969), Romiley Junction SB (1952).

Photos: signals at Banbury South (GWR 1965), signals at Bognor SB (LBSCR 1898), Carstairs (CR 1960), Kennington Junction SB (GWR 1965), signals at Oxford (GWR 1964, 1965), signals at Wolvercot Junction (GWR 1965).
2008 February Article "Steam Days at Ely" (GER) includes photos: Ely North SB (1961), Ely South SB (1938, 1960), signals at Fordham Junction (1952), signals at St. Ives (1952).

Photos: signals and gantries at and around Basingstoke (LSWR), signals at Pontardulais Junction (GWR-LNWR 1964), Swansea 2 and 3 SBs (LNWR 1964), Swansea Bay SB (LNWR 1964), Swansea St Thomas SB (MR).
2008 January Article "Days Out on The D & A" (Dundee & Arbroath) includes photos: Camperdown Junction SB (1959), Carmyllie SB (1960), Elliot Junction SB (1958).

Article "Leeds" includes photos: signals at Beeston (GNR 1962), signals at Holbeck High Level (GN 1949, 1961), Whitehall Junction SB (GNR 1964), Wortley Junction South SB (GNR 1960. 1962).

Photos: Chinley North Junction (MR), Dainton Tunnel SB (GWR 1958, 1959), Newton Abbot West SB (GWR 1958), Torquay SB (GWR 1958), signals at Totnes (GWR 1961), signal gantry at Willesden Junction (LNWR).
Issue Items
2007 December Article "New Romney Branch" (SER) including photo: signals at Appledore & SB 1947, signal at Brookland Halt 1961, Lydd-on-Sea SB (1952).

Article "The Kitty Brewster 61A Story" including OS 25" plan of Kittybrewster (GNSR 1926); photos: signals and Kittybrewster North SB (c1910), Kittybrewster South SB (late 1930s).

Photos: signals at Bentley Heath Crossing (GWR 1961), signals at Cheltenham Lansdown Junction (GWR-MR 1957), signal at Godley Junction (GCR 1948), distant signal at Goring Troughs (GWR 1958), signals at Oxford (GWR 1961), Sheffield Victoria No.3 (GCR 1959), signal at Winchcombe (GlosWR 2006).

Photo of Derby Works includes part of a signal box (MR 1890).
2007 November Photos: signals at Acocks Green (GWR 1962), signals at Beeston (GCR), signal at Cowes Mill Hill (IWCR 1965), Diggle Junction SB (LNWR 1966), Dovey Junction SB (CR 1966), signals at Killin Junction (CR 1959), signals at Lapworth (GWR 1957), signal at Llanbedr & Pensarn (CR 1958), NBR signal at Loch Long (1959), signals at Lymington Pier (LSWR 1966), Newark Crossing SB (GNR 1953), Oban SB (CR 1960), Retford Crossing SB (GNR 1961), signal gantry at Selby (NER 1950s), Severn Bridge Junction SB (GWR 1964), Sandown SB (IWR 1964), signals at Soho & Winson Green (GWR 1961), signal at Worksop (GCR 1962), signal at Wroxhall (IWR 1964), b SB (LSWR 1964), Yeovil Junction SB (LSWR 1964), signals at Yeovil Pen Mill (GWR 1964).