| 271 | “Railway Damage and Disruption in World War II Birmingham and surrounding area” (Part 1) . Article by B.W.L. Brookbank. 6 page feature with map, 4 photographs and 18 references. Includes an outline of the lines and traffic bottlenecks in the Birmingham area including those ex. LNWR.
Backtrack. Vol. 17 No. 1 – January 2003 |
| 272 | “The Midland Compound in Retrospect” (Part 1) . Article by David Jenkinson. Sorry Gentlemen, but the author does put the development of the Midland Compound in the context of earlier work by Webb and the constraints placed upon him by the Company and includes a nice photograph of John Hick No.1505 “Richard Arkwright”.
Backtrack. Vol. 17 No. 1 – January 2003 |
| 273 | “Manchester Victoria & Exchange”. 3 page photo feature with a map of the Manchester District and 3 photographs from the LMS period.
LMS Journal. No. 2 |
| 274 | “The Motor-Fitted LNWR Coal Tanks ”. Article by R. Hadley. 11 pages, 13 photographs (some full page with excellent detail), extracts from an LMS booklet listing lines authorised to be worked over, table of locomotives known to be fitted and 3 references.
LMS Journal. No. 2 |
| 275 | “A Crossing to Bear”. A 4 page article, accompanied by 5 photographs, about the level crossings on the Bletchley – Bedford line.
Railway Bylines. Vol.8 No.2 – January 2003 |
| 276 | “Bob on Tour”. A 4 page feature about the RCTS ‘North Wales Rail Tour’ of 2 October 1955 which included several ex-LNWR lines. The 5 photographs include the tour train at Dyserth, Corwen (OK – the station was GWR but LNWR trains used to go there) and Coed Talon.
Railway Bylines. Vol. 8 No. 2 – January 2003 |
| 277 | “True North Western Style”. Article by Keith Miles. A very readable 6 page account of last decade of the ‘Princes’, with emphasis on their work on the southern part of the WCML , including a reference to the fatal Lichfield crash of January 1946, which involved No.25802. Particularly evocative is a Henry Casserley photo of the last of the class to survive, No.25752, arriving at Watford Junction on a summer’s evening in September 1946. The article is accompanied by 9 photographs from the late 1930s and ’40s.
British Railways Illustrated. Vol. 12 No. 4 – January 2003 |
| 278 | “Hijacked by Chartists – An Incident from 1839”. Article by Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott. 2 pages. The article describes an incident on the Sirhowy Tramroad during the Chartist riots in November 1839. The Sirhowy Tramroad was taken over by the LNWR in 1875.
Backtrack. Vol. 17 No. 2 – February 2003 |
| 279 | “Take Notice”. A 2 page colour photo feature of railway signs. Includes a Chester & Holyhead Railway Bye-Laws sign at Holywell in 1965.
Backtrack. Vol. 17 No. 2 – February 2003 |
| 280 | “Heaton Norris Junction”. An 8 page article looking mainly at the changes to the signalling at Heaton Norris in the 1950s. The article is accompanied by 14 photographs from the BR period.
British Railways Illustrated. Vol. 12 No. 5 – February 2003 |
| 281 | “High Leicestershire”. A 2 page feature about the LNW/GN Joint line between Welham Junction and Bottesford. The article is accompanied by 3 photographs – one from the 1930s, one from the 1940s and the other from the 1950s.
British Railways Illustrated. Vol. 12 No. 5 – February 2003 |
| 282 | “The Next Phase” (Part 1) . Article by Don Rowland. A 7 page article about the evolution and construction and subsequent history of his ‘Central Cheshire’ P4 layout, with excellent mono pictures showing superb LNWR freight locomotives, Northlight engine shed and water tank.
Model Railway Journal. No. 138 – 2002 |
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