Steam Days - June 2024

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North Wales and Chester memories
From childhood beach visits to post-graduate commuter
Chris Forrest started work near Chester in autumn 1955, and the city’s railways and the routes beyond passed from occasional, to everyday, observation due to a Saltney-Capenhurst commute until August 1957.

The Hundred of Hoo Railway for Port Victoria and Allhallows-on-Sea
A route born of rivalry and the desire for continental traffic, Chris Gordon Watford tells of how all this came to naught, and subsequent efforts to boost passenger receipts and create a resort of Allhallows-on-Sea were likewise largely unsuccessful.

Steam Days Magazine Description:

Steam Days - Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best!
Steam Days is a monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. Each issue covers the six regions of British Railways: Western, Southern, London, Midland, Eastern, and Scottish, with the occasional article on Irish railways and the industrial scene.
These well illustrated articles in the magazine cover the history of the railways of Britain from the early days of the 1800s through to the end of steam on British Railways in August 1968.