Description

RAILWAY TIMES is the twice-yearly journal covering the changes and events on British Railways year by year.

Issue 4 Contains:

Introduction 3
Blue is no longer the colour 5
A Vulcan in a culvert 6
Tollesbury Termination 9
The Mikado that never did exist 12
Sandling – a junction no more 16
Two New Festival of Britain Ventures 19
Taking stock at Eardley 21
Sir Eustace calls it a day 26
Signs of yesterday’s times 28
Rule Britannias! First year operations and experiences 31
Report on Railway Electrification 34
This is York – 1951 style 39
Anglian ‘Spam Cans’ 43
North Sunderland succumbs 45
Newish (!) 4-car EMU for the Southern Region 51
Last H1 Atlantics withdrawn 53
Let’s Halt Awhile 57
North of the Border in ‘51 60
Golden Arrow Pullmans & the ‘Trianon’ Bar(s) 63
From a Waterloo Eyrie 67
Crane tank bows out at Bow 68
Rail Transport at the Festival of Britain 69
Brief Encounters 76
In the next issue covering British Railways in 1952 80

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