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Autumn 2016
(24 pages)

  • Radipole Halt
  • Tail Lamps
  • GWR Hired-in Wagons
  • Two Views of Lostwithiel (1930s)
  • Five GWR Personalities (C19th)
  • Another Helping of Fish
  • So Sorry (Letter to competition loser!)
  • Back Driven Signals
  • Map (Folded pocket version)

Spring 2016
(24 pages)

  • Rails & Rail Lubricators
  • William Shakespeare & the GWR
  • Automatic Train Control
  • Coach End Dimensions & Loading Gauge
  • Passenger Luggage in Advance
  • Fish Traffic Working (1935 Handbill)
  • Old SDR Coach body? (Photograph)
  • 3537 at Exeter (Photographs)
  • Hired Wagons Missing (1913 circular)
  • Working of Travelling Cranes (1915 circular)
  • Roath Branch Junction Signals (Photograph)

Autumn 2015
(24 pages)

  • Bovey Tracey Station
  • Unloading a Coral A
  • From the Cambrian (Llwyngwril Signal Box)
  • Frying Tonight! (Fish traffic from beyond the GWR)
  • Castle in the air (7005 from below)
  • Signal Box Interiors (Silk Mill Crossing, Norton Fitzwarren Junc., & Huish Crossing)
  • War Memorials
  • Passengers Entraining (2 official photographs)
  • Victualling Restaurant Cars
  • King George V on shed (1928 photographs)
  • Flange Oiler at Langstone Rock (1939 photograph)

Summer 2015
(24 pages)

  • Reminiscences of a Great Western Apprentice (at Wolverhampton Works)
  • Dean Goods at War – a follow up (see Pannier 35)
  • GLM/WAC ‘Pole’ 20 Ton wagon
  • Westinghouse Signals (Abergavenny)
  • GWR & WR Branded Parcel Train Brake Vans
  • Newton Abbot Up Starters
  • Portrait of a Gate (Haresfield, 1901)
  • GWR Publicity Department material (Bookmarks)
  • Another Banana Van (Y14, 1925)

Spring 2015
(24 pages)

  • The 1925 Van Exchange (With LNER)
  • Early Cornish Perishable Traffic (C19th)
  • Broad Gauge Postcards (Hand coloured)
  • Dean Goods Locos at War (Photo feature)
  • Lostwithial Goods Shed
  • The ‘Viaduct’ Coach (See Pannier 34)

Autumn 2014
(24 pages)

  • A Visit to Swindon Works (c1930)
  • Montacute Station – A Miscellany
  • An Accident at Reading Station (1914)
  • Rebuilding Milltown Viaduct (1896)
  • A Cambrian Miscellany
  • WWII Anti-glare screens for Tender Locomotives
  • GWR Structure Colours (Additional Notes)
  • Avonmouth Docks (1920 photograph)

Winter 2013/14
(24 pages)

  • Walkham Viaduct
  • Codsall Station
  • Carriage 249/W80978
  • The Dean/Churchward Transition
  • Combined Name and Number Plates (Photos)
  • Diagram U1 Stone Wagons
  • Minks B, C, and D (Photos)
  • Trailer 92: photos of the newly preserved Diag. U coach

Pannier 32 – Spring 2013
(24 pages)

  • Brakes and Minks B, C, and D (John Lewis)
  • USA Locomotives (Wartime photos) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • More Monkey Train photos – Excursion Trains to Clifton Down (David Cross)
  • Plymouth North Road Reconstruction (Photos from 1940) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • The Safety Movement Part 5: Did it work? (Mike Esbester)
  • GWR Cabside Numberplates Part 3 (John Bolton)
  • A Nameless Saint (Photos of 2978) (Mike Wiltshire)

Pannier 31 – Winter 2013
(24 pages)

  • GWR Toad 35831 (Diag AA4) (Bob McCunn)
  • The Safety Movement Part 4: The Messages (Mike Esbester)
  • An Unusual Occurrence (Accident at Wishford in 1874) (Terry Waldron)
  • P4 GWR and PO wagon modelling description Part 2 (David Gardner)
  • Photos from Jack Slinn collection (incl. Hayes creosoting yard) (Keith Ettle)
  • 1944 Ambulance train drawing
  • Tettenhall station buildings
  • Cataloguing the Swindon Drawings (Ivor Lewis)

Pannier 30 – Summer 2012
(24 pages)

  • The Safety Movement Part 3: Innovative Safety Techniques (Mike Esbester)
  • More Monkey Train photos – Excursion Trains to Clifton Down (David Cross)
  • Loco 100 A1 Lloyds portrait official photo
  • Benefits of GWSG Web Group (Keith Ettle)
  • GWR Cabside Nameplates Part 2 (John Bolton)
  • P4 GWR and PO wagon modelling description Part 1 (David Gardner)
  • ‘Last Journey at Bramley’ (1936 GWR film still images) (Mike Wiltshire)

Pannier 29 – Spring 2011
(24 pages)

  • The Safety Movement Part 2: The GW Magazine Articles & Safety Booklets (Mike Esbester)
  • Monkey Trains – Excursion Trains to Clifton Down, for Bristol Zoo (David Cross)
  • The Butts Spur Line, Worcester (Brian & Annette Vaux)

Pannier 28 – Winter 2010
(20 pages)

  • Modelling Blagdon (Wrington Vale Light Railway) (Ben Dickenson)
  • The Safety Movement Part 1: An Introduction (Mike Esbester)
  • Further Notes on the ‘Armstrongs’ and their Predecessors (Peter Jones)
  • The Dean/Churchward Transition [corrected version of Pannier No.27] (Peter Jones)
  • Tornado [corrected version of Pannier No.27] (Roger White)
  • Riding of Coaching Stock (Robert Ferris)

Pannier 27 – Spring 2010
(28 pages)

  • Wolverhampton Low Level (Bob McCunn)
  • Collett Bow End Van Third 5106 (Bob McCunn)
  • The Dean/Churchward Transition (Peter Jones)
  • GWR Cabside Numberplates Part 1 (John Bolton)
  • Westbury Station (Mike Wiltshire)
  • A Great Western Locomotive in an unusual role at Blandford (David Gardiner)
  • ‘Tornado’ (A GW locomotive name) (Roger White)

Pannier 26 – Summer 2009
(28 pages)

  • Birmingham Snow Hill Side Entrance (Mike Wiltshire)
  • Notes on the Armstrongs and their Predecessors (Peter Jones)
  • Traffic Through Oxford in 1902 (David Haines)
  • Coldrenick Viaduct, broadside photograph of first version.
  • Ernest Wiltshire – Driver (Steve Manchip)
  • Scratchbuilding Interesting Prototypes (Steve Manchip)
  • ‘Last Journey’ in Close Up (Stills from 1936 feature film) (Steve Manchip)
  • Swindon Locomotive Change (Mike Wiltshire)

Pannier 25 – Spring 2009
(32 pages)

  • Coach 2400, a unique 68ft clerestory brake third (David Geen)
  • Notes On ‘The Great Bear’ (Peter Jones)
  • Brent, David Geen describes his layout
  • Last Boat Trains to Avonmouth (David Cross)

Pannier 24 – Winter 2008
(28 pages)

  • Hallen Marsh, further notes (following Pannier 23) (David Cross)
  • Freight Train Formations (Paper read at Inst. of Transport Congress, 1924)
  • Handling Railway Scrap (Description of Swindon scrap yard)
  • Albert Edward Wiltshire – Great Western Driver (Mike Wiltshire)
  • Clerestory Luggage Tri-Composite no.(6)820 (David Geen)
  • The Yeovil Complexity (Peter Squibb)
  • Caersws, Steve King describes his model
  • Articulated Stock in the Movies (Stills from 1936 feature film ‘Last Journey’) (Steve Manchip)

Pannier 23 – Spring 2008
(28 pages)

  • Great Western Pullman Coaches (David Geen)
  • Codsall Signal Box (Bob McCunn)
  • Hallen Marsh Junction (Mike Wiltshire)
  • A29 Autocoach 217 (ex-SRM 66) (Bob McCunn)
  • Dean 48ft Brake Vans (David Geen)
  • Freight Train Breakaways (Paper read at Inst. of Transport Congress, 1924)
  • Holiday Season Tickets (Extract from GWR Magazine, c1930)

Pannier 22 – Winter 2006/07
(32 pages)

  • GWR Magazine – Death of Mr.G.J.Churchward
  • Modelling Chains & Shackles (Raymond Walley)
  • GWR Magazine – ‘His Masters Voice’ Radio Show Train
  • Two ‘Siphons’ (Diag O62, July 1972)
  • More Siphons (Photos from the 1980s) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • Using Frogmore Grab Handles (Don Kalber)
  • 6 photos from Bristol area, 1950s (David Cross)
  • Whitewash Coach Revisited (Follow up to Pannier 21 article) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • Listing of GWR Wagons in Preservation
  • GWR Magazine – Making ‘The Last Journey’ feature film on the GWR

Pannier 21 – Winter 2005/06
(32 pages)

  • Toad W35403 (photographed at Norwich, c1999) (John Trott)
  • GWR Magazine – ‘Transport Enterprise in Cornish Milk Traffic’
  • Streamliners (Well-Illustrated article of 5005 & 6014) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • GWR Magazine – ‘Experiment in Locomotive Streamlining’
  • Dean Goods 2516 (2 photos, Merthyr Tydfil, 1950s) (David Cross)
  • The Whitewash coach (DW) 139 (Photo 2005, York) (Bob McCunn)
  • GWR Magazine – ‘The Whitewash Coach, A Unique Vehicle’
  • Cosford Signal Box (Photos, 2005) (Mike Wiltshire)
  • More Great Western Vans (Fruit Y10 – 1971, Van V16 – 1976) (Bob McCunn)
  • Blagdon Station, Wrington Vale Light Railway (John Trott)