1 SMOKE AND STEAM: An open access weekend at the Swanage Railway, for local residents, on February 17/18 saw recently restored – and now prize-winning (see page 20) – LSWR ‘T3’ No. 563 in steam, here seen approaching Harman’s Cross with the 14.00 from Swanage. The loco had a five-coach train resulting in this impressive plume from the chimney.
PAUL COOPER/WRL ARCHIVE
2 TWO ‘66s’: A view looking south along the former Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway towards Aylesbury at Quainton Road on February 14 as, in the distance, GBRf Class 66 No. 66711 Sence has just arrived at the HS2 aggregates railhead while Quainton’s Hunslet ‘Austerity’ No. 66 (works No. 3890) is in action on the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre’s line.
PHIL MARSH