Backtrack | September 14
September 2014
Leicestershire Locomotives - three colour pages showing a range of motive power in the county.
Nassington Ironstone Quarries - Tim Edmonds recalls a visit to this Northamptonshire site in 1970.
Mails, Steam and Speed - David Andrews delves further into the 'City of Truro' controversy of 1904.
Give my Regards to Broad Street: The ruin and renaissance of the North London lines and the birth of the overground - Part Two sees Geoffrey Skelsey consider the coming of better times after the 1990s.
The Lincoln to Grantham railway - A. J. Ludlam tells the story of this secondary line.
Highland Mixture - three pages of colour on the former Highland Railway lines.
A Scottish Railway at War - A. J. Mullay looks at the Glasgow & South Western's contribution in the First World War.
Great Northern Atlantics - four pages of archive photos of both the GNR's 4-4-2 classes.
Surrey Days: Summer Saturdays in the 1950s and 1960s - John Chapman remembers the Reading-Redhill line.
Doing her bit for the Country - Rosa Matheson pays tribute to women railway workers in World War I.
Sounds of the Sixties - Keith Dungate's four-page spread of the Class 60 locomotives in their various liveries.
The Railway Industry and Public Health - Part Two - Michael B. Binks concludes his survey of general health and safety issues.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Backtrack September 14.