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Bristol District

A Stormy Night in 1943
All Stations to Swindon via Badminton
An Emergency Exploit
Avon Street Locomotive Works
Brislington Station
Bristol Excursions
Bristol Panel Signal Box
Clifton Down, MR
Disenchantment
Durdham Down and Railways
GWR Signalling Department in 1939
Journeys Through Time
Learning the Job
On our Doorstep
Railways and Redland
Severn Tunnel; The Impact of Construction on Pilning District
St Anne's Park Station 1898-1970
St Philip's Marsh HST Depot - Visit
The Clifton Rock Railways
The End of an Epoch
The Rebuilding of Temple Meads Passenger Station 1870-1875
The Rise of Severn Beach
The Rise of Severn Beach - Addendum
The Train Now Standing at Platform 9
The Tube System at Bristol Temple Meads
Theatricals
Trains to Parnall's (Yate) 1939/40
Wartime Mystery at Severn Beach

Bristol Railway Circle

A Journey with Ian
A Short History - 1 (1933-36)
A Short History - 2 (1936)
A Short History - 3 (1936-37)
A Short History - 4 (1937)
A Short History - 5 (1937-38)
A Short History - 6 (1938-39)
A Short History - 7 (1939-45)
A Short History - 8 (1945-46)
A Short History - 9 (1946-47)
Batchelor, Dick - Obituary
Bill Gates' Last Journey
Bradford Railway Circle - Interchange Visits 1949-55
Burrell, J.F. ('Jack') - Obituary
Contributions to "The Signal"
Danger, N.E. - Obituary
Deane, M.E.J.D - Obituary
Dewsbury, S: "A Circle Lecturer Half a Century Ago"
Edwards, H.N.S.
Holiday Memories involving Ian Thomas
Memories of Mark
Memories of Mark Warburton
Obituaries - Jack Evans, Alan Saunders, David Pollard
Obituary - Arthur Leonard ("Len") Challis
Obituary - Bob Griffiths
Obituary - Derek Chaplin
Obituary - Edgar Lewcock
Obituary - Ian Thomas
Obituary - Kenneth John Rider
Obituary - Mark Warburton
Obituary - Michael ("Bill") Gates
Obituary - Mrs Jill Challis
Obituary - Peter Harris
Obituary - Roger Granger
Obituary - Sybil Crabbe
Obituary - Vernon Newbury
Outing to Newton Abbot, 2002 ("The Dawlish Donkey")
Rider, K.J. - "A Circle Lyricist"
Signal Badge
Some 1950s Circle Outings
The Circle goes Down the Marsh
The Pub of The Night
The Ten Years 1984-1994
The Ten Years 1994-2004
Visit to Croydon Tramlink
Walker, C.S.N - Obituary

Buses

A Recipe for Success
Bristol Bus Tickets 1951-1986
From a Gentler Age
GWR Motor Bus Operations
Something New - Something Blue
The Lampeter to Aberayron Bus
The Red Lion Will Never Forget

Cambridge / East Anglia

District 2 - Peterborough
Early Days
In the Beginning
King's Cross - King's Lynn
Local Transport in the 1920s
Memories of Other Forms of Transport in Cambridge
Remote Essex: Tollesbury Pier

General

"E.S.W." (Travels in England, Scotland and Wales)
A Brief Visit to the West Highlands
A Forgotten Branch Line
A German View of the Tay Bridge Disaster
A Rail Strike Journey
A Visit to the Island Line
Alan Jarvis at the Eclipse Peat Company
Business and Pleasure
Circa 1946 - 1948
Collection GWR Engines
Early Memories of Dorchester WR
East Midlands to South Wales
Further North, 1914-1918
Great Westerb Shed Codes
Great Western Carriage Destination Boards
Ken View Model Railway
LNER Publicity
My travels of 1995
Oh No! Not the ECML Again
Reminiscences of the Cambrian Coast Line
Road and Rail - A Personal View
Shed Bunking
Short Lived Railways
Silver Jubilee 1935
So what set you off?
Some Early Confessions of a Trip to Swindon
Some More Personal Reminiscences - 2
Some More Personal Reminiscences - 3
Some Pre-War and Wartime Recollections
Some References to Railways in Hardy's Wessex Novels
Some Thoughts on a Fiver
Steam in the Movies 2001
The 1999 Solar Eclipse
The Eclipse Peat Company
The Ladies and Railways - Do They Mix?
The Last Years of the Big Four
The London & North Western in the East Midlands
Two Hereford Railway Journeys
What A Difference a Year Makes
Women Working on the Railways in Wartime

Heraldry, Liveries, etc.

Chief Mechanical Heraldry
Great North Eastern Heraldry
Midland Railway - Armorial Device
Some Thought on New Liveries and Logos

Industrial Railways

A Mendip Tramway Miscellany
An Interesting Survivor (Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie)
Paddington - Reading with a Different Perspective

Ireland

An Irish Holiday
An Irish Locomotive Naming Enigma
County Donegal Railways Class "3" 4-4-4T
Locos of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway
The Stolen Railway (Parsonstown to Portumna)

Locomotives

A Southern Puzzle
B&ER 4-2-4T No. 40 (GWR No. 2002)
BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T's - Memories of
Class 253 Power Car (HST)
CM&DPLR "Burwarton"
GER 0-10-0T No. 20
GER 4-6-0s
GWR 4-6-0 No. 98
GWR: Where are the Hall's?
Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie
L&NWR 4-6-0 No. 2000
LBSCR 0-6-0T No. 97 Honfleur
LBSCR 2-2-2T No. 329 Stephenson
LBSCR 4-4-2T No. 5
LBSCR Locomotive Names
LNER "A4" Sir Nigel Gresley
LNER 2-8-2 No. 2001 Cock O' The North
LNER 2-8-2/4-6-2 No. 2002 Earl Marischal
LNER Electric Loco No. 11
LNER J50 Class 0-6-0Ts
LNER Kylchap A4s
Locomotive Nicknames
Locos of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway
Midland Railway Locomotive Minutes
NER Class D 4-4-4T An Interesting Rebuild
NER Some Locomotive Class Notes
NER The Last 0-8-0
Of Lap, Lead and Famous Belgians
S&DJR 2-8-0 No. 88
SECR Class D 4-4-0 No/ 737
South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST Zebra
The A-Z of North Eastern Railway Locomotives
The End of an Era - A Tribute to the Paxman "Valenta"
The First Steam Locomotive
The Woolwich Mogul Saga - A brief Outline
Unusual Nameplates (1) Amalthea
Unusual Nameplates (2) Maedhbh
Wheel Arrangements (Wheels within Wheels)
Who were the GWR "Ladies"

London Area

"Two in the Bush" - Wood Lane, White City (and the Central London Railway)
Croydon Tramlink
Langley
The World is Your Oyster
West Hampstead - A Lineside Observation

Man, Isle of

The Other Isle of Man Railways

Narrow Gauge and Miniature Railways

Robert Proctor Mitchell - "The Old Govenor"
Shillingstone Light Railway 
Snailbeach in the Colonel Stephens Era
The Trail of the Airborne Cat (RH&DR)
The Vale of Rheidol, 26th August 1939

Overseas Railways

Across the Pond
Bosnia and Serbia
Canadian Pacific Selkirk Locomotives
Cuba 1996
Field and the Hill and Train No. 2 Eastbound
Holland - October 2005
Impressions of Australian Railways
Impressions of Japanese Railways
Mount Washington Cog Railway (USA)
Nasty Foreign Places
Public Transport in San Fransisco (USA)
Swiss Transport Co-ordination
The Fell Locomotives for The Rimutaka Incline, New Zealand
The IGE Seven Nations Jubilee Steam Tour

Puzzles

Branching Out
In The Line of History
In the Running
Loco Parade
Slagthorpe Station 1907
Three London Brainteasers

Railway Engineers, Designers etc.

British Locomotive Engineering Dynasties
Brunel's Assistant Engineers
Bulleid, O.V.S.
By Design (Raymond Loewy)
Douglas Earle Marsh
Edward Thompson: A Postscript
Edward Thompson: A Retrospective Appreciation
Engineers of the Construction of the Settle & Carlisle Railway
Gresley, Sir Nigel
James Pearson - A Very Private Man
Richard Trevithick
The Elusive Mr Bennett

Railway Operation and Services

Banking
Excursion Workings for the 1927 Total Eclipse
Papal Specials of 1982
Pre-war Summer Saturdays at Minehead
Reminiscences of the Cambrian Coast Line
Sixty Years of Speed (East Coast Main Line)
Summer Saturdays at Exeter in 2001
The "Ports to Ports Express"
Train 638 - Indian Queens to Paddington Non-Stop

Signalling

A Hasty Retreat from Black Lion Box
An Irish Design of Economical Facing Point Lock
Lock, Block and Brake - The Development of Locking in Railway Signalling
Resignalling at Crowcombe (WSR)
Single Line Working
Stockport Edgeley

Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway

A Thirteen Mile Walk
Double-Arched Bridges on The Somerset & Dorset
Masbury Station
Memories of the Somerset & Dorset
The S & D and What Might Have Been

Stations

A London Conundrum
Closed Stations
On the First Page (Bradshaw)

Welsh Railways

Cambrian Line Reminiscences
Narrow Minded
Penmaenpool
Rails to Brymbo
South Wales Shed Bashing
The Welsh Highland Railway

Contributers

Andrew Kirkham
Alan Saunders
Colin Boocock
C.T.O Prosser
Chris Perry
David Christie
Eddie Evans
Gerald Nichols
G.H. Soole
Ian Thomas
Jack Evans
Jack Burrell
J.G.H. Jenkins
John Towers
John Owen
Kevin Carver
Len Challis
Mark Warburton
"Bill" Gates
Norman Danger
Peter Davey
Peter Harris
Bob Griffiths
Roger Granger 
Richard Harman
Bob Owen
Simon Rocksborough Smith
John Uncles


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2002/35
1996/31
2000/18
2011/03
1999/10
2000/36
1999/15
1998/31
2000/17
1998/35
2003/26
2009/35
2001/15
2004/17
2001/28
2000/02
1996/06
2002/27
2006/18
1997/31
2003/04
1995/08
2005/26
1998/07
1994/36
1996/29
1997/15
1995/08



2012/15
2002/39
2003/44
2004/43
2005/38
2006/42
2007/46
2008/37
2009/42
2011/34
2002/38
2008/03
1997/38
2001/03
2012/28
2003/43
2004/10
2001/16
1994/41
2012/13
2012/21
2012/19
2017/02
2007/03
2012/03
2015/-
2005/27
2012/04
2009/03
2012/06
2007/04
2011/39
2015/-
2015/-
2007/09
2009/03
2002/37
2000/46
1997/25
2009/16
2002/27
2005/24
1994/01
2004/03
2000/23
2000/09



2009/26
2007/10
2005/28
2000/40
2011/15
2001/26
2002/25



2009/03
1994/28
1998/01
2000/10
2002/07
1996/01
1998/18



2000/19
2003/15
2008/33
2017/18
2007/30
2008/08
2015/Cover
2006/27
2008/06
2008/22
2009/32
2009/20
2000/45
2009/39
2007/12
2011/33
1997/42
2005/03
2009/15
2002/34
1993/40
2005/20
2007/38
2005/09
2012/10
2008/12
2007/27
2008/29
1995/04
1999/40
1999/14
2002/23
2011/13
2015/-
1999/09
2006/03
2011/18
2002/09
2001/42
1999/07



2004/22
2003/37
1995/22
1997/39



1995/23
1997/33
1994/39



2000/35
1996/43
2005/18
2002/14
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2006/37
2002/Cover
2003/18
2017/Cover
2012/Cover
2007/Cover
2001/10
2008/Cover
1994/31
1997/33
2000/Cover
1997/Cover
2009/Cover
2005/Cover
1997/01
2006/15
2001/Cover
2002/31
2001/17
2004/16
2003/35
2006/16
2002/14
1995/17
1996/25
1997/44
1998/43
2004/24
2008/05
1999/Cover
1996/Cover
2006/39
2007/43
2008/25
2004/39
1996/21
1996/30
1998/27
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2003/20
2000/23
1996/19
2011/24
2000/15



1998/12



2000/16
2003/47
1001/12
1997/13
1996/05



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1998/20
2017/36
1996/22
2017/21
2005/22
1997/27
2005/11
1999/28
1995/10
1999/24
1997/34
2011/09
2002/20



1998/33
2000/22
1997/14
1996/14
1995/16
2008/37



1996/34
2006/06
2004/22
2000/32
2005/33
1998/09
1996/15
2009/06
2004/23
2017/06
2008/24
2007/31



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1999/02
2002/03
1996/26
2002/34
1994/47
1001/19
1995/28
2003/32



1995/01
2008/17
1997/18
1994/19
2000/28
2004/Cover



2017/16
2007/23
2011/27
2001/38
1999/33



1998/43
2001/24
1999/05



2002/34
2004/12
2009/13
1996/09
2011/25
2006/20


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