BackTrack Cumulative Index to Volumes 26-30 COMPILED BY TERRY PENFOLD Great Central station facades 26/534 1968: 12.17 Preston to Manchester Victoria 26/134 Publishing History Great Western stations pictorial 26/310* Acton: twilight of a marshalling yard 27/139, 296 Volumes 26-30, 2012-2016 each 12 issues. Pp. 1-768 Hull 30/675* ACV lightweight diesel trains 29/688 King’s Cross, All lines lead to 27/532, 598 Airport rail links 26/620 The Index Liverpool Street Station: Redevelopment of, 1974- Alternatives to Steam, Development of 28/247 The index is arranged alphabetically within major 1991 26/20, 163 Anglo-Scottish East Coast Express Freights 27/332 topic headings. If an item does not fit within any of London Charing Cross 30/646 Austerity 2-8-0s and 2-10-0s 26/708* the main headings it is shown as a stand-alone entry. London Victoria 27/664* Bedford, All change at 26/568 Beeching Report - A reflection 50 years on 27/341 Each entry is shown with volume and page number(s). Ashover Light Railway 27/44* Beeching, Beyond 27/556 Entries which are primarily illustrative are marked Atmospheric Railways 29/312, 470 Bentley Heath, Observations at 30/260* with an asterisk.* Autocars and Doodlebugs (petrol/gas electrics) 29/519 Birkenhead - Chester line 27/260* Many items appear within more than one main topic Birmingham in the 1950s and ‘60s 27/6 heading. Banking duties 26/160*, 292, 479* Birmingham New Street 29/324* Banking on the Lickey Incline 27/414*, 30/454 Birmingham southern suburbs 30/68* Acknowledgements Barnum & Bailey’s Circus Train 28/45, 104 Blackpool in 1967 30/37* The index entries include the annual indices of Barry Railway: South Wales locomotives 28/654* Blackpool line, On the 29/68* individual volumes compiled by the editor with some Bennie Airspeed Railway 26/374 Blue Trains, The passing of the 27/413* clarification of subject matter if appropriate. Birkenhead Joint Line 27/260*, 454, 30/132* Bolton, Holiday exodus from 30/424 Blackburn & Preston Railway 1843-1859 26/38 Bolton-Blackburn line 26/88* © PENDRAGON PUBLISHING 2017 Blackburn Railway, The, 1845-1858 29/366, 432 Brightlingsea branch closure 29/526 Boundary Markers 30/560* Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 26/100 ACCIDENTS Brecon & Merthyr Railway: South Wales locomotives Bury, Steam raising at: If only they knew…. 26/414 Ais Gill 1913 28/666, 29/46 28/654* Caledonian Mixture 30/324* Aylesbury 1904 27/646 Calvert Spur, The 30/362 Baker Street 1912 and 1925 26/6 BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yards 28/78 Borough Market Junction 1977 30/571* Arnside 30/476* Carriage and Wagon examination 30/46 Brechin 26/227, 526 Arten Gill Viaduct 28/14 Chester, Focus on 27/4* Coton Hill, Shrewsbury 1965, A Shropshire Tragedy Arthington (Yorks) 30/50* Class 31s in North Wales 27/542* 29/378 Banavie 30/237 Class 33 ‘Cromptons’ in the South 27/670* Ditton Junction 1912 28/84 Belah Viaduct 28/100* Class 37 on Cornish ‘Speedlink’ services 28/196* Doctor’s tribute to a railwayman (Reading 1952) Britannia Bridge 27/70 Class 37s in South Wales 26/224* 28/346 Causey Arch 30/134 Class 37s on China Clay 27/580* Ealing Broadway 1909 27/348 Clapham (Yorks) 30/50* Class 40 on the East Coast route 29/480* Falling off the platform 30/182 Cogland flyover 29/54 Class 40: Overwieght and Underpowered? 29/196 Farringdon 1939 26/6 Dowery Dell Viaduct 29/622 Class 40s 26/730* Fire and rescue exercise 29/249* Eamont Viaduct 29/756 Class 44/45 ‘Peak’ Type 4 26/260* Goswick 26/483 Entwhistle Viaduct 29/372 Class 47s Stratford style 30/277* Herne Hill 1947 29/74 Forth, by road and rail across the 30/398 Class 50, To Portsmouth by 27/132* Hither Green 1960 30/571* Frodsham Viaduct 30/133* Class 56 freight 29/548* Lavenham branch 27/100 Gatehampton bridge 28/256* Class 59 on stone traffic 28/324* London Charing Cross roof collapse 1905 30/646 Hook Norton (Oxon) 30/50* Class 60 28/566* London King’s Cross 1976 30/571* Huddersfield to Penistone branch 29/672* Class 73 Electro-Diesels 26/416* Marlborough Road 1891 26/6 Infrastuctural consequences of the demise of steam Class 84: Murphy’s Law 30/393 Mind the gap 30/226 traction 28/111 Class 86, At Ipswich 27/324* Moorgate Street 1917 26/6 Knaresborough Viaduct 27/336 Class 90 on the Great Eastern 29/152* Motspur Park 1947 29/74 Lockwood Viaduct 30/609* Consett, The climb to, in 1961 29/250 New Cross Gate 1923 26/6 Lower Darwen Viaduct 29/368, 433 Coton Hill, Shrewsbury 1965, A Shropshire Tragedy Patchway 1866 29/556 Lowther Viaduct 29/754 29/378 Polmont, Push-pull accident at 27/109 Maltraeth Viaduct 27/70 Cromford & High Peak Line, The very last train on Purley Oaks 1947 29/74 Menai Bridge 27/70 the 26/751 Quintinshill 1915 29/278, 468 Newark and Bottesford Branch 30/496 ‘Deltic’ dawn and A4 sunset 29/398 Railway Passengers Assurance Company 29/444 Ouse Viaduct, Balcombe 30/614* ‘Deltic’ Delights 28/608* Reading 1952 28/346 Ouse Viaduct, Sharnbrook 30/615* ‘Deltic’ prototype on trial 28/61* Royton 1908 and 1961 27/12 Penrith 27/99* Demise of the Western in the West Midlands 28/325 Scremerston 26/483 Ribblehead Viaduct 27/64*, 640* Didcot Fly, The 30/438 Severn Bridge 29/164 Riddlesdown Viaduct 30/684* Didcot Power Station the end of an era 28/204 Shawford 1952 27/400 River Trent Viaduct 28/4 Diesel engines: high and medium speed types Sheffield Victoria 1954 26/91 Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash 27/57*, 28/436*, compared 26/502 Slip coach accidents 26/269 29/623* Diesels on the Cumbrian Line 28/505* Staplehurst disaster 1865, Charles Dickens and the Royal Border Bridge 29/623* DMU refurbishment: The White Ghost 26/593 26/567, 27/760 Ryde Pier 26/276, 27/176 DMUs in Scotland, Discourse on 26/407 Stockton & Darlington Railway: Fatal accidents Selby swing bridge 28/388* Dudley Freightliner Terminal 28/612 between 1825 and 1845 30/750 Severn Bridge 29/164, 30/409* East Croydon 26/81 Summit Tunnel (Inferno under the Pennines) 28/719 Shugborough carriage road bridge 28/4 East Lancashire lines 30/388* Whitchurch 1954, 1960 26/516 Sleights 30/50* Eastern Blue 29/736* Wimbledon, District Railway 27/348 St. Germans Viaduct 27/57* Euston regenerates 28/132* Sunderland 26/112 Exmouth-Cleethorpes train 29/739 Agricultural shows, Railway participation in 27/134 Tay Bridge 26/128* Financial history 1948-1954: the steam railway Air Services, Railway 26/620 Tongue Viaduct 29/434 26/367, 493, 584 Airport rail links 26/620 Tramway Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon 29/361 First modernisation 27/213 Airways, Southern 30/52, 175 Victoria Viaduct , Washington 26/112 Footplate work, Post-war on the Southern 26/50 Wallington Viaduct, Fareham 27/672* Forth, by road and rail across the 30/398 ARCHITECTURE Welwyn (Digswell) Viaduct 27/538*, 30/315* Gas turbines 27/606* 55 Broadway, Goodbye to 28/180 Westbourne Bridge 28/436* Gas-turbine GT3 26/185 Atherstone Station 28/4 Whalley Viaduct 29/304* GE line diesels 28/68* Bath Green Park 30/339* Wimborne 29/288* Glasgow suburban electrification 30/580, 656 Broad Street Station 28/496, 531 Gobowen 26/681* Chester & Holyhead Railway Architecture 27/70, Bristol & South Wales Union Railway and New Great Northern Leeds-Bradford line 30/502 28/175 Passage Ferry 29/550 Green All The Way (songs) 27/686 Christ’s Hospital 30/698 Hampshire steam 26/544* Cockfosters and Uxbridge stations 28/314 BRITISH RAILWAYS Hastings Line DEMUs 27/361* Dover Marine 27/624 100-wagon trains and their legacy 28/206 High Speed Trains 26/580*, 30/736* Frome 30/600 1955 Modernisation Plan 29/260 Highland centenary journey 27/525 1 Cumulative Index to Volumes 26-30 Hinksey South, Oxford 26/217* Tyneside electric train working 30/516 DIDCOT, NEWBURY & SOUTHAMPTON Huddersfield and Halifax 30/608* Wainfleet goods, First in, last out 28/252 RAILWAY Inferno under the Pennines (Summit Tunnel) 28/719 Wansbeck Wander, A 30/100 Accidents at Whitchurch 26/516 Infrastuctural consequences of the demise of steam ‘Warship’ Review 26/324* traction 28/111 Waverley, In and out of 29/424* DIESEL TRACTION Isle of Wight publicity 26/276 Wednesbury winter’s night 30/724 Acton: twilight of a marshalling yard 27/139, 296 Isle of Wight railway closures 28/580, 746 Wellingborough, Focus on 27/285* ACV lightweight diesel trains 29/688 Isle of Wight steam in 1966 27/176 West Coast electrics 28/160* Alternatives to Steam, Development of 28/247 Isle of Wight, High Season on the 26/672* West Coast Main Line. Trevor Owen on the 30/158* Blackpool line, On the 29/68* Kensington Olympia, Freight at 29/624 West Riding pictorial 29/516* Chester, Focus on 27/4* King’s Cross, All lines lead to 27/532, 598 West Yorkshire recollections 1946-57 26/519 Class 31s in North Wales 27/542* Leeds City Varieties 26/429* ‘Western’ diesel-hydraulics 27/68* Class 33 ‘Cromptons’ in the South 27/670* Lickey Incline in transition 1960-1966 30/454 Windsor Link, 25 years of the 29/708 Class 37 on Cornish ‘Speedlink’ services 28/196* Lightweight DMUs 27/582 Woodhead route electrification 26/556* Class 37s in South Wales 26/224* Liverpool - Wigan DMU modernisation scheme Working the Fish 29/124 Class 37s on China Clay 27/580* 28/395 Yeovil, Yesterday at 27/388* Class 40 on the East Coast route 29/480* Liverpool Lime Street blues 26/452* Class 40: Overwieght and Underpowered? 29/196 Liverpool Street Station: Redevelopment of, 1974- Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 26/100 Class 40s 26/730* 1991 26/20, 163 Class 47s Stratford style 30/277* Llanwern iron ore trains 29/380* CALEDONIAN RAILWAY Class 50, To Portsmouth by 27/132* London Midland steam miscellany 29/132* Ballachulish 29/452, 636* Class 56