Steam Days

Steam Days is a monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. Each issue covers the six regions of British Railways: Western, Southern, London, Midland, Eastern, and Scottish, with the occasional article on Irish railways and the industrial scene. These well illustrated articles in the magazine cover the history of the railways of Britain from the early days of the 1800s through to the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968.

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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 from August 1914 for more than four years. As well as the wider picture, Andrew Kennedy pays homage to the company’s Mercantile Marine Master Mariner Charles Algernon Fryatt, a civilian railway employee whose steadfast determination to follow Admiralty orders in the face of enemy aggression was followed by capture with the SS Brussels, a show trial and his murder by firing squad on July 27, 1916.

Only known 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.

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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 Purbeck line in its later BR steam days.

1955 and all that • How much longer was steam expected to continue on British Railways?

Sanquhar Station in the Sentimental Sixties … and Subsequently • Douglas McNaught presents a description of railway operations in the 1960s, the failure of the fight against the station’s closure, the aftermath, and the joy of station reopening; complete with personal reminiscences.

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