Front cover of The Railway Magazine showing visiting J15 no 65462.
The current issue of Steam Railway carries a good
selection of news from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
including a summary of the arrival of visiting locomotives
including 5619 and 850 Lord Nelson and good couple of pictures of
the Broadway extension. The May issue of The Railway
Magazine also contains GWR news but the front cover has a
cracking image of recent visitor North Norfolk Railway visitor
class J15 no. 65462 heading along straight between Toddington and
Winchcombe. The engine had just arrived from an appearance at the
Barrow Hill roundhouse and heavy rain washed grime from the
smokehoods inside the shed, giving the locomotive its slightly
grubby appearance. The result is a picture that is every bit
captures the atmosphere of an early 1960s local passenger
train!
The picture is by author and photographer John Stretton who
says: "After 20 years of trying I have at last managed to get a
front cover shot on RM!"