Editor's Intro
London 2012 New Year’s Day Parade
19 January 2012
Happy new year! I hope that your Christmas break allowed you to get a whiff of steam somewhere.
Comment... January 2012
15 December 2011.
As we approach another year end and time to drain down the engines and protect the pipes from frost there will no doubt be a few hardy souls that will be out and about at Christmas markets/fairs between Christmas and New Year – roading with their engines to the pub if the weather stays mild enough.
Doing the ‘green’ thing
17 November 2011.
Following on from my last month’s mutterings on metal thefts and the less than scrupilous types that will sacrifice the gamble of being frazzled alive to nick copper signalling cable, readers have mentioned to me that ‘scrappies’ are now a regular feature at vintage auctions, whereby the ‘nod’ is not just to the auctioneer but to another gang of scrappies in order to ‘div up’ the spoils and thereby whose turn it is for the next lot.
Paying a high price
20 October 2011.
The famous Great Train Robbery of 1963 netted £2.6 million in used banknotes – but there’s an even bigger train robbery going on right now, for, in the first three months of this financial year, Network Rail has seen nearly 300 cable theft crimes which have caused nearly 2000 hours of delay to passengers and has cost £4.3 million in compensation costs alone.
Comment... October 2011
15 September 2011.
Money and water don’t mix... Of all the various steam and vintage items that preservationists have saved, restored and operated over the last 50 years or so, there can be no sector that is such a seemingly thankless task as keeping an historic vessel fit for purpose; i.e. ‘in the water’ and keeping it in the water.
Comment... September 2011
18 August 2011.
YOU know it’s the height of the rally season when you need a scythe to find your front door – the garden’s looking a little neglected and any window of opportunity to do something about it gets scuppered by the fact it’s just too wet, due to the great summer we’re having.
Comment... August 2011
21 July 2011.
Britain’s not working ADVERTISING and marketing people love a ‘concept statement’ and one that we frequently use on the front cover of Old Glory is the tagline ‘When Britain was Workshop to the World’.
Paint your wagon
16 June 2011.
THERE has been much excitement of late from my editorial colleagues here at Mortons on their respective railway magazines.
Brighton great...
19 May 2011.
If steam is a religion, then its gospel was well and truly taken to the people on Sunday 1 May, when the Searle family and the ‘Thursday Night Crew’ took their three engine and heavy load road train to the 50th anniversary London to Brighton commercial vehicle run.
All hands to the pump…
17 March 2011.
The traction engine fraternity has the National Traction Engine Trust and the heritage railways have the Heritage Railway Association.
Current Issue: Feb 2012
■ FERN MILL ENGINE RESCUED
■ STEAM CAR FETCHES $4.5M - “OUR £4.5BN HOBBY”
■ SEASONAL STEAM-UPS
■ MEALS ON WHEELS - THE LONDON TRANSPORT MOBILE CANTEEN
■ WALLIS SHOWMAN’S ARCHIVE
■ SHIPLEY GLEN TRAMWAY
■ THE ‘OTHER’ BROWN & MAY TRACTOR
■ LIFE AND LIME: AMBERLEY RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS
■ WANT TO BUY A US ENGINE? THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF EXPORTING
■ THE NEXT FOSTER NEW-BUILD – AND IT’S NOT A ‘WELLINGTON’ TRACTOR
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 16 Feb 2012
