Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.
Here’s what to expect this month…
Captain Fryatt and the Great Eastern Railway continental services during the First World War
Linking Britain with Holland and Belgium as key international routes, GER shipping found itself at the mercy of the Imperial German Navy in 1914-18. Andrew Kennedy pays homage to the company’s Captain C A Fryatt whose steadfast determination to follow Admiralty orders in the face of enemy aggression led to events that shocked the world in July 1916, 110 years ago.
Only know photographs of obscure engine sheds: East from Llanberis
Curated by Roger Griffiths, some lesser visited and even less often photographed LMS area engine sheds from North Wales and into North-West England come under the spotlight.
To Swanage, for steam, sunshine and sand
Marking 60 years since the last steam-hauled summer of everyday BR passenger services on the Swanage branch, Andrew Britton recalls the line in its later BR steam days.
1955 and all that: How much longer was steam expected to continue on British Railways?
With the Modernisation Plan first presented by the BTC in December 1954, Philip Atkins delves through BR documentation of the mid to late 1950s, to reveal short and longer term plans for the BR steam fleet.
