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Railways Illustrated May 2010
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FEATURES
Number Crunching
Ever wondered how many TOPS numbers there have been? We find out!
Where could new preserved railways be?
Our new analysis piece asks some questions…
Working on the Woodhead
Stephen Cornish recalls work during the last years of the Woodhead line
Raising the BAR
An interview with British American Railroad Services
Red in the Atlas
Paul Shannon lists the surviving freight only lines
Truly Prototypical Operations
A look at preserved TPO mail trains
Causing a Diversion
Classic Trains looks back at some of the common diversionary routes
Was the white Lion a white elephant?
The history of shortlived prototype D0260 Lion
The Move
How five preserved Irish locos were moved in a matter of days
THE BIG NEWS THIS MONTH
Avalanches close the West Highland line
InterCity Express programme on hold
A 66 to head a charter to Kyle?
Three Class 56s for Battlefield Line diesel gala
38 50008 goes back in blue
COVER STORIES
All the TOPS numbers ever carried
16 DB Schenker to look at moving Class
90s to Romania
16 Loco-hauled trains to return to
Okehampton
32 Heritage lines for the future
36 26007 to visit the Great Central
Railway?
42 The last years of the Woodhead line