Steam Days - August 2023

In this issue

Caerphilly Castle – GWR centenarian
In August 1923 the first of the GWR ‘Castles’ emerged from Swindon. Andrew Wilson explains how few people at the time realised the influence that the design would have on the drawing offices of the ‘Big Four’.

The Stour Valley railway and associated lines
Between the Norwich and Cambridge main lines and where Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex meet, Stanley C Jenkins offers an historical overview of the railway network that evolved from the Colchester, Stour Valley, Halstead & Sudbury Railway.

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.