The nostalgic magazine’s pages delve into the earliest days of the railway in the era of horse-drawn tramroads up to locomotives (whether steam, diesel or electric) and the rolling stock of more recent years. Backtrack magazine takes you back in time and is packed with all aspects of the railway’s past throughout Britain and Ireland. Trains across the Gill: Hownes Gill Viaduct 1858-1969 - Rob Langham presents history from Stockton & Darlington Railway days.īacktrack is Britain's leading historical railway journal, covering every era of railway history from its earliest days and infancy up to the more recent events of around ten years ago. The Southampton Dock Diesels - described by Rory Wilson.
#Backtrack 1969 archive
Monton Green: West of Salford - archive photos from the Pendragon Archive.Ĭrossing London: Part Two - Geoffrey Skelsey concludes his account of the City Widened Lines and the Thameslink Saga. In Praise of the Moguls: Part Two - Jeremy Clarke concludes his survey of mixed traffic 2-6-0 locomotives. Horwich's Finest - four colour pages picturing the LMSR's splendid Horwich-designed Class 5 2-6-0s (the 'Crabs').įrom Road unto Rail - Exercises in Technology Transfer: Part Three of Miles Macnair's series deals with Traction Engines, Railcars and the Sentinel Story. Peak Forest, Buxton and Great Rocks - Richard Clarke recalls tales of near misses, mishaps and runaways in the 1970s. Oxfordshire's Railways - a county survey by Stephen Roberts.Īspects of a Lancashire Railway Town: 1830-1910 - the history of Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown by Jeffrey Wells. To the Channel - and Beyond - colour spread by Rodney Lissenden showing Channel Tunnel construction trains in Kent in 2002.Ĭolwick: Where Coal was King: Part One - The life and times of the Great Northern Railway's yards and locomotive depot in Nottingham described by Bruce Laws.