Railway Times 8 - 1955

Contents; Introduction; British Railways Modernisation plan; Continuous welded rail; In the works at Swindon in 1955; Chester General Rebuilding; Snowdrift at Bleath Gill; Chelmsford – Southern Electrification; MotorRail; Scottish Horse Transport; Shunters on Trial; Presflo wagons; Closed Lines 1955; Some Southern Region Closures; The ‘Deltic’ Prototype; English Electric takeover of Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn; Coronation Class on trial; Polish Coal Imports; The 1955 ASLEF strike; Liverpool Lime Street; New Express Freight services; 1955: a bleak year for accidents; Regional Round-Up; The Franco-Crosti boiler trials; Watford to St Albans Railcars introduced; South Wales Pullman; Last of the J70s; 1955 – the end of the Drummond S11 4-4-0’s; Metro-Cammell Lightweight DMUs introduced; ‘Starlight Specials’ restored; Brighton Line resignalling works; Workington DMU services; New Instructions for Carriage Cleaning; Coming in the next issue for 1956; ;