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The quality magazine for steam and industrial heritage enthusiasts! Published monthly, you can take out a subscription here or browse through past issues containing fascinating features and news from the preservation scene.
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July 2026
- 70 Years of Steam: The Great Rempstone Steam & Country Show
- A weekend in Lancashire (Part 1)
- The Pioneering Spirit of Sir William Fairburn
- Steam Training with the NTET
- The Other Shillingstone Railway
- Sweet Treat Fleet
£5.99
June 2026
- Andrew Semple: A Lifetime in Heritage
- The Night Café – an insight into their life in the 1920s
- Fabulous Foden – Glyn Ashley’s 1949 Foden S18, a familiar sight around Shrewsbury
- The Patent That Never Was – weighing up Henry Pooley & Son Ltd
- The Holmes Mill Experience – an old cotton mill, now a brewery and bar but with a rare mill engine
£5.99
May 2026
- A Tasker In West Wales - a photoshoot around the Talyllyn Railway
- Lancaster’s Maritime Legacy - exploring the city's seafaring past
- Sri Lanka’s Preserved Road Steam
- Timber Loading - The Traditional Way
- Damascus To Baghdad By Bus - a pioneering bus service in the Middle East in the 1920s
£5.99
April 2026
- FREE 2026 Events Guide!
- The Story Of ‘The Danny’
- The Alan Thomas Memorial Road Run
- Tartan Treasure - a rare Ford Model T commercial
- Feeling The Heat - a day in a working foundry
- The Rushton Tractor – a rare British tractor introduced at the wrong time
£5.99
March 2026
- A January Jaunt - steam-hauled road train in winter
- Night Journey To The North – an epic lorry journey from London to Leeds during WW2
- Full steam Ahead at Onslow Park - the popular rally on the edge of Shrewsbury
- Simply The Best - the Fordson Major was the tractor for a generation
- A Unique Occasion! - taking a set of eight WW1 commemorative bells to Belgium
£4.99
February 2026
- The Wirksworth Quarry Tri-Tandems
- Boxing Day In West Sussex - the annual post-Christmas steam and vintage gathering
- A Walk Over Barmouth Bridge – exploring an unusual railway bridge
- Looking Back: Early Days At Rempstone
- Flying High – Claude Grahame-White and the early days of aviation
£4.99
January 2026
- The Return Of ‘Oor Wullie’
- A Day Of Private Ploughing
- 70 For West Of England
- Volvo’s Game Changer
- A Swiss Interlude
- Looking Back: Birmingham Newhall Street
£4.99
December 2025
- Celebrating 50 Years In Gloucestershire – the Stroud Vintage Transport & Engine Club's 50th anniversary rally
- Sentinel Remembered – exhibition at the Old Abbey Foregate Station
- Autumn Run From The Yard – steam on the road
- Another Life For A Bristol Half-Cab – an epic trip 60 years ago
- The Handcross Accident – investigating an early motor bus accident 120 years ago
- Classic Roadless – 'go anywhere' tractors
£4.99
November 2025
- So Many Trains – Rail 200’s ‘Greatest Gathering’
- Steaming Around At Old Warden
- The Kingdom Of Caledonian Macbrayne
- Tractoring At Welland
- Borders Borderers – The Atkinson Borderer
- It’s Not About The Tractor – development of the Ferguson System
£4.99
October 2025
- The Queen Of Mills – Burnley's steam-driven Queen Street Mill
- A Reunion In Kent – the much anticipated gathering of Lambert engines
- Traditional Boats and a lot more…
- Guy Motors Of Wolverhampton
- Focussing On Welland’s Steam – the top steam action from Welland Steam Rally
- A Weekend At Blist’s Hill – road steam weekend in Ironbridge
£4.99
September 2025
- Allchin Makes Only Its Second Appearance – No.1268 had been out of the limelight for more than 50 years
- The Life & Times Of James Nasmyth
- Appleford 75 – An Appreciation
- When Ford Rescued Britain
- Normandy 25
- Somerset’s Lost Canal, Part 3
£4.99
August 2025
- Appleford 75 – The Prelude
- Somerset’s Lost Canal, Part 2
- Down On The Farm – Acton Scott Historic Working Farm
- Super Saturn – the last “Shroppie Fly”
- Quantity & Quality At The Best Bloxham In Years
£4.99
July 2025
- A Milestone For Maverick
- Richard’s Day – celebrating the pioneer of the use of high pressure steam
- Somerset’s Lost Canal, Part 1
- A Rare Event – Middleton Top engine running by steam
- When The Steam Fair Comes To Town
£4.99
June 2025
- A Gondola In The Lake District
- A Day Out At Detling
- Road, Rail & Steam At The Great Central
- From Humble Beginnings - The International Harvester Company
- Carlisle Station, But Not As You Know It
£4.99
May 2025
- The First ‘London to Brighton’ By Self-propelled Mechanical Power
- Seddon Of Oldham
- A Trip On A Slate Train
- Britain’s First Trolleybuses
- Surely You Deal With The Naughty One – the work of the pioneer of photography
- Showman’s Engines In Their Working Days, Part Two
£4.99
April 2025
- FREE 2025 Events Guide!
- Surprise For The Fete – road trip on a 7nhp Burrell
- Patently Original – a little-known Victorian bridge builder with big ideas
- A Look On The Smaller Side… – the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at the Talyllyn Railway
- Yorkshire’s Black Diamonds – the National Coal Mining Museum
- Bugsworth Basin, a historic inland port
£4.99
March 2025
- Towers In The Landscape – the Clipstone Mining Museum: a lucky survivor
- ‘Royal John’, the smaller version – building a 4 inch scale Scammell Mountaineer
- Stothert & Pitt Crane-Makers – the surviving legacy of a famous Bath company
- Remembering The Bushes – a nostalgic look back to Stourpaine Bushes
- Guildford to Horsham: The Last Rites 60 Years Ago – when Beeching cut the railway line in 1965
£4.99
February 2025
- Restoring A Rarity – the recovery and restoration of an 1864 Stothert & Pitt Hand Crane
- Dingwall’s Way To The Sea – the northernmost man-made waterway
- Slinfold Boxing Day Steam Gathering - Sussex steam & vintage vehicles winter get together
- Restoring The Steam Tug Brent
- Malta’s Railways: An update
- Brunel’s PS ‘Great Western’ – the story behind one of Brunel's great steamships
£4.99
January 2025
- Lady Hesketh – Our Engine’s Story
- The Mine With A Widow’s Curse – an evocative monument in the heart of the Peak District
- Churchill Forge 2030 – safeguarding the future of this very rare site
- A Day At St James’s – pre-London toBrighton veteran car run gathering in Pall Mall
- A ‘Tiny’ Enigma – the last surviving original broad gauge locomotive
- Includes FREE 2025 Wallplanner
£4.99
December 2024
- In The Hidden Valley – abandoned Cornish China Clay workings
- The County Story – surviving County tractors have withstood the test of time
- An Irish Weekend – this year's Inishannon rally
- Northern Powerhouse – The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
- Hanging On The Telephone – exploring one of the 20th Century's most important communications revolutions
£4.99
November 2024
- National Transport Trust Awards
- A Trial Of Britain’s Largest Steamer – a 1931 test of Sentinel's DG8
- A South African Transport Collection
- Spectacular Straffan – Ireland's well known steam museum
- A Born Survivor – a rare AEC Marshal
£4.99
October 2024
- 60 Years Of Stradbally Steam – a celebratory rally in Ireland
- Commemorating London’s United Service Transport
- Bright & Colourful Extravaganza – Hollycombe's great fairground weekend
- A Day With Three Jameses - wood firing a Garrett tractor
- What Is Left Of… Isle Of Wight Railways, Part 1
- Charming Cheddleton - a flint mill with its roots in the Middle Ages
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