• Contents A Half Century of Railway Bookselling Part Two Robert Humm The Stratford & Moreton Railway Tim Edmonds The Leominster Canal River Lugg Aqueduct Part Two David Slater, Mike Watkins, Michael Rosenbaum and Darren Smalley A Week of Paperwork from Keswick Goods Shed - May 1917 Robert F Hartley Some Observations on canal building in the Midlands Part One Ray Shill Sir William Towle 1849 - 1929 Patrick W Johnson Review article - The Great Tramways Conspiracy Reviews Letters
  • Contents: A Half Century of Railway Bookselling Part One - Robert Humm The struggle for Wrexham’s Second Railway - David Parry The Leominster Canal River Lugg Aqueduct Part One - David Slater, Mike Watkins, Michael Rosenbaum and Darren Smalley R.W. Perks, Sir Edward Watkin, and The Cranbook Railway Part Three - Owen E Covick Journeys through history - Matthew Searle Reviews Obituary - Michael Jonathan Taunton Lewis
  • Contents: The conservative reaction to railways in the nineteenth century — David Gwyn Fatal accident on the London and Birmingham Railway  [Harrow 1840] (reprint) Something better than carriers’ carts: a pioneer rural steam  bus company at Shipston-on-Stour — Tim Edmonds R W Perks, Sir Edward Watkin, and the Cranbrook Railway  (aka ‘the Hawkhurst branch’). Part2 — Owen E Covick Highland Autobahn — Keith Fenwick Book reviews Correspondence Index to volume 41
  • Contents: Summer and winter, springtime and harvest : provision of summer and winter clothing to nineteenth-century railway workers — Anthony Dawson Saving Devon and Cornwall’s branch lines : a brief history of the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, 1988–2010 — Gary Bonsall Silas Nicholls – inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, fraudster? — Michael Messenger Some thoughts on the architecture of Ireland’s early main lines. Part 6 : Unfinished business in Ulster — R F Hartley R W Perks, Sir Edward Watkin, and the Cranbrook Railway (aka ‘the Hawkhurst branch’). Part 1 — Owen E Covick The annals of Clarborough Tunnel — Adrian Gray Correspondence Reviews
  • Contents: Clothing British railway workers, 1830 to c1900: contract, supply and cast-offs — Anthony Dawson The East Cornwall Mineral Railway — Michael Messenger The Leominster Canal Little Hereford feeder — David Slater Bewdley and the ‘stinking ditch’— Julian Souter Obituary - Andy Guy Correspondence Reviews  
  • Contents: The Stafford Branch Canal and the Salt Works Arm at Baswich — David Jones Broadside ballads and the railways — Julia Winterson Shropshire’s earliest railways reconsidered — Dorian Gerhold The Trent Valley Railway – cutting the first sod (reprint) The Abermule rail disaster victims — Peter Johnson Some thoughts on the architecture of Ireland’s early main lines Part 5 : The Dublin & Kingstown Railway — R F Hartley Obituary (Gordon Biddle) Correspondence Reviews
  • Contents: Mrs Tackle and the Bathampton branch — Anne Willis Passengers by long-distance fly boat in the early nineteenth century — Giles Eyre Death on the narrow gauge: an update — Peter Johnson The failure of post-World War One reconstruction and the Railways Act 1921 — Gary Bonsall The Portreath Tram Road — Michael Messenger First and acknowledged first: reinterpreting colonial era texts on the Indian railway project, 1836–1856 — Tilak Bhardwaj Correspondence Reviews
  • Contents: (Not so) open access — John Nelson (Clinker Memorial Lecture) A financial review of a strategic joint railway: the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway, 1890–1912 — Tony Sheward William Hill, William Jacob and the salt trade by canal through Gloucestershire, 1795–1808 — Diana Crane Some thoughts on the architecture of Ireland’s early main lines Part 4 : Dublin to Belfast — R F Hartley The twentieth century was the age of railway magazines — L A Summers George Stephenson & Son – a request for further information — R F Hartley Correspondence Reviews
  • Contents: The introduction of Area Management: a personal memoir — Grahame Boyes The ferries of the Cleddau and Milford Haven: Part 2 : The ferries of Milford Haven — Martin Connop Price The cost of land for raiiways — Michael Bishop Who coined the phrase ‘Beeching axe’ and when? —  Tim Edmonds Some thoughts on the architecture of Ireland’s early main lines: Part 3 : The Midland Great Western Railway, 1848–1851 — R F Hartley Private Acts and public outcomes — R J B Morris More on skew bridges — Mike Clarke Correspondence Reviews
  • Contents: The ‘Fourth Arm’ : transporting ammunition for Bomber Command in World War Two — Gary Bonsall The administration of rural roads in Victorian times. Part 3 : The dissolution of the Drayton Highway District — Peter Brown The ferries of the Cleddau and Milford Haven Part 1 : Haverfordwest to Pembroke ferry — Martin Connop Price Joseph Townsend’s ‘On the utility, structure, and management of canals’ — Richard VandeWetering George Stephenson’s ‘South Western Railway’ — R F Hartley Some thoughts and observations about skew arches — John Poulter Obituary (Robin Welton) Correspondence Reviews
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