Inside issue 60...

SIGNAL POST

Why oil-burning has a place…
but is not a panacea.

NEWS

‘King’, ex-Barry ‘Prairie’, 1968 ‘Black Five’ and crane tank all return to steam; Darlington opens running line; ‘Scotsman’ and Tornado woo Ruddington; Blaenau Ffestiniog and Kidderminster station projects launched; Statfold reveals oil‑burner; Strathspey bags two ‘Standards’.

TULYAR CLEARS HURDLE

Green Class 55 is back in action… and double ‘Deltics’ are planned.

PURRING PURBECK

Dorset’s Swanage Railway has returned to health, as CEO Abbie King explains.

HAPPY RETURNS

The Settle – Carlisle line celebrates 150 years.

‘COUNTY’S’ LINES

Hawksworth 4-6-0 nears completion… or does it?

OIL FIRED UP!

Oil-burning ‘S160’ No. 2253 enters service at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

WHY I VOLUNTEER

A steam ‘fix’, with Bluebell Railway Society Chairman Roy Watts.

SUPER ‘SUB’

Celebrity EMU returns to grace…
with a new (old) look.

SPECTACLE PLATE

Oil crisis? What oil crisis?

ONE-ZULU

‘Jacobite’ latest; new luxury train launched; ‘Hastings’ DEMU reaches Inverness.

FROM SMALL ACORNS

The Worth Valley has opened a pub. TRACKSIDE explains why.

BRIDGE BASH

This year’s ‘Great Britain’ took steam back over the Tay Bridge for the first time since 2011.

PROP-ER JOB!

Grosmont’s Bridge 42 has reopened – but there’s more work to be done.

HELP SINGAPORE SING

A saddletank with real history needs your  help.

PAVE THEM OVER!

Rail – or road? For a 1950s lobby group, the answer was clear.

SHED LIFE

Our photographic series on people turns to those who keep engines moving.

RUNNING LINES

TRACKSIDE’s news digest, with stories from around the movement.

PRESERVATION PIONEER

A Class 40, back on the West Coast Main Line.