Backtrack

Backtrack, Britain's Leading Historical Railway Journal, covers all aspects of railway history from its earliest days through to more recent events up to around ten years before now including, early railway history from the 'pre-Stephenson' era, steam, diesel and electric locomotive history, railway company history, railway carriages and wagons, railway stations, railway ships, hotels & road vehicles, railway economic and social history, railway publicity and advertising. Backtrack's contributors include many of today's leading railway history writers. From the beginning the magazine has maintained a reputation for its production values and each issue contains a wealth of photographs reproduced to the highest standards, including a generous selection of historic colour. Published monthly, Backtrack is THE magazine for all who are interested in British railway history.

Editorial • The wheels of industry

Backtrack

NIGHT DUTY

STOCKTON STATION ROOF • CHRIS MILLS, who was a Senior Technical Officer on the Works Drawing Office at Newcastle, outlines the procedures to be gone through in the 1970s to assess the practicality of restoring a historic railway building – and not always, then, with a good outcome.

THE PRINCETOWN BRANCH • BRUCE LAWS describes a remote Dartmoor line in Devon.

FACING SOUTH • Photographs from the JOHN SPENCER GILKS Collection

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE OTHERS BRITISH DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES IN AUSTRALIA

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA

RHAPSODIES IN BLUE

COMPLETING THE TRIANGLE AT SHIPLEY

THE DECLINE OF THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL RAILWAY SALFORD DOCKS AND TRAFFORD PARK PART ONE

'THE MOTIVE POWER OF THE FUTURE' THE MIDLAND RAILWAY'S PIONEERING ELECTRIFICATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CLOSURE OF THE NEWPORT RAILWAY

ARKWRIGHT STREET AND THE NEWSPAPERS

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