Railway Times 6 - 1953

Issue 6 Contains: Introduction; Contradictions on the Isle of Wight; Last of the ‘Saint’ class; 1953 in Colour; A very Special ‘Special’; George Heiron visits Euston; Testing times at Swindon; Brief Encounters; The 1953 accident record; The end for an LNWR veteran; Coronation decorations: Waterloo and elsewhere; New named trains for 1953; 1953 – a year of transition; In with the new: the BR Standard 2-6-0 class; Strangers on the Southern; Some pre-grouping classes in colour; The 1953 line closures; ‘Rail – v – Road’; Woodhead : open at last!; Starlight Express; The 1953 Centenaries; The Great Storm: flooding of the East Coast and SR lines; In the next issue covering British Railways in 1953