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Railway Archive Issue 2
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The Mersey Railway in Steam Days 1886 - 1903
by T.B. Maund.....page 3
The Midland Railway's Line from Londonderry to Strabane by Stanley C. Jenkins MA.....page 20
'Down Postal' .....page 46
The North Staffordshire Railway's Stoke Works Part 2
by Basil Jeuda ..... page 47
The Railway Photographs of E. Pouteau Part 2: The Alexandra Docks Railway to the Furness Railway
by John Alsop ..... page 73
Wish You Were Here? Railway Postcards of Northamptonshire
by Andrew Swift .....page 87

Issue 2 - sample photograph



from.... THE MIDLAND RAILWAY S LINE FROM LONDONDERRY TO STRABANE
Londonderry Victoria Road, from the Craigavon Bridge and looking south towards Strabane on 24 June 1937. Class ‘5’ 2-6-4T No.5 Drumboe has just arrived with the 2.05 pm service from Stranorlar. This engine was originally number 17 Glenties but it had been renumbered and renamed only a short while prior to the photograph being taken.

The picture also provides rare glimpses of the signal box, in the right background, and the engine shed, closed about 1934, just beyond. The box was later demolished, the points and signals thereafter being controlled from ground frames. Note that the siding on which the open wagons are standing was still narrow gauge at this date; it was later converted to broad gauge to accommodate NCC wagons arriving from Londonderry Waterside station.

~ Photo H.C. Casserley
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