Description

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

Issue 6 Contains:

Introduction 3
Contradictions on the Isle of Wight 5
Last of the ‘Saint’ class 8
1953 in Colour 12
A very Special ‘Special’ 16
George Heiron visits Euston 21
Testing times at Swindon 24
Brief Encounters 29
The 1953 accident record 32
The end for an LNWR veteran 37
Coronation decorations: Waterloo and elsewhere 38
New named trains for 1953 42
1953 – a year of transition 44
In with the new: the BR Standard 2-6-0 class 46
Strangers on the Southern 49
Some pre-grouping classes in colour 52
The 1953 line closures 54
‘Rail – v – Road’ 63
Woodhead : open at last! 64
Starlight Express 66
The 1953 Centenaries 70
The Great Storm: flooding of the East Coast and SR lines 77
In the next issue covering British Railways in 1953 80

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