Autumn 2025
(40 Pages)

• Loco No. 13 (A brief history of its shed allocations)
• Lengthman’s Duties & Difficulties (PW Institution 1926)
• Culham Ticket Office (Its recent history and preservation)
• A New Parcels Office for Culham (A proposed extension)
• Oxford C&W Works
• Relaying Permanent Way (PW Institution 1932)
• Tracing Old Lines
• And Another Thing … (Comments on and extensions to previous articles)
• WW1 Ambulance Train No. 16
• Tail Lamp (A photo of 3359 Kingsbridge with a strange carriage in the background)

Spring 2025 – Consolidation Edition
(44 Pages)

• 2-8-0 Locos of the GWR (Includes tanks, RODs, 8Fs, WDs, & S-160s)
• Moveable Elbows on the GWR, Part 2
• Hatton South Signals
• S-160 Locos on the GWR 1942 – 1945
• Improvements in Locomotive Maintenance Equipment (1933 Article on improvements to Wolverhampton repair shops)
• GWR Chief Civil Engineers (Biographies of all 11 CCEs)
• Tyseley Relaying Requisition 1937 (For relaying at the Loco Sidings, 1937)
• Plymouth to Exeter Stopper (1930s photo of Bulldog-headed train raises questions)
• And Another Thing … (Comments on and extensions to previous articles)
• Tail Lamp (Follow up to photo of a City 4-4-0 in Pannier 50)

Autumn 2024 – Permanent Way Special
(44 Pages)

• The Permanent Way of Railways (Article from 1908 GWR Magazine)
• Marlborough Cutting Chalk Removal (Engineering Bulletin of June 1956)
• Taylor’s Patent Cladding (Potential replacement for corrugated iron sheeting)
• Moor Street Station (Article from 1916 GWR Magazine) – see Pannier 50 – Additional Information
• Moveable Elbows on the GWR, Part 1
• Ballast and Ballasting (Article from 1928 PW Institution Journal)
• Plymouth District PW Inspectors’ Map (Post-1947) – see Pannier 50 – Additional Information
• Drainage of Bridges (Article from 1927 PW Institution Journal)
• GWR Motor Economic System of PW Maintenance (Description of system introduced from 1901)
• Odds & Ends (2 Photos of 2-plank wagons in Departmental use)
• GWR 0-4-0ST No.96 (Follow-up to Pannier 48 article describing No. 95)
• The PW Gang’s Equipment (Transcription of official list for Gang No.91, Taunton District)
• Stained Glass (The GWR’s representation in the stained glass of 2 churches)

Winter 2023-2024
(40 Pages)

• GWR Census 1923 (A summary based on an official post-grouping Report)
• Modern Marshalling Yards (From the Railway Gazette, December 1933)
• The Great Western Trust – an Introduction
• Pagoda (The distinctive structures described)
• The Southall Autotrain (Two 1905 photographs analysed)
• Caerphilly Castle (A celebration of the first of the class)
• More on No.95 (A follow-up to the article in Pannier 48)
• Safe Working of Railways (Text for a 1905 lecture & sections from the 1904 GWR Handbook)
• Examination for Look-Out Men (A 1913 document for testing to Rule 273)
• Goods in Small Consignments (An introduction based on official GWR documents)
• Where is it? (A mid-1950s photo of Castle 5050)

Summer 2023
(40 Pages)

• What is an ELR? (Engineers Line Reference)
• The work of a large passenger station (WR Deb. Soc. Lecture 1950)
• Profile of a Station Master (W T Geden, SM Paddington)
• Reconstruction at Paddington (GWR Mag Article from May 1923)
• Who was William Albert Hart? (A fascinating genealogical trail)
• Broad Gauge Kingswear Branch Trains
• GWR Branding (Photos of crockery from GWT’s collection)
• I have a theory (Some coach conundrums)
• The Four Castles (Photos of the recent gathering at Didcot)
• GWR No.95 – An engine we know little about
• Odds & Ends (1931 excursion handbills)

Spring 2022
(40 pages)

• Reminders of the past at Swindon (Significant buildings & memorials) (Richard North)
• More about XP markings (Follow-up to Pannier 46 article) (Robert Ferris)
• 2112 – A Tank with hidden depths (Dave Haines)
• R P Brereton (Brunel’s Assistant) (Chris Avery)
• GWR Loading Gauges (David Gardner)
• The GWR Rock Collections (Brunel’s Building Stone Collections) (Richard Porter)
• Collett’s Folly: The Saga of the Missing Pony Truck (The Tale of the 56xx) (the late Peter Kearon, reprint of controversial 2003 article)
• The Wiltshire Agricultural Show 1925 (The Special Workings Required) (Richard Kelham)
• GWR Running-in Boards (Martin Goodall)
• Odds & Ends (Follow-ups to previous topics)

Spring 2021
(40 pages)

• The Byzantine Empire of Private Owner Wagons (Chris Gwilliam)
• Barmouth Junction North Box (Alan Rhodes)
• Station Buildings at Bodmin Road & Lostwithiel (Martin Goodall)
• GWR Coaching Stock Workings (John Chamney)
• Fencing the Railway (Tony Wood)
• Plymouth Millbay Dock (Keith Ettle & David Geen)
• The London Milk Distribution Scheme in the event of War Emergency (Greg Martin)
• Friar’s Junction Signal Box (Graham Carpenter)
• What’s in a Name? (Keith Ettle)
• St Austell Goods Shed & Yard (Keith Ettle)
• GWR Structure Colours. An Addendum: After WW2 (Richard North)
• Trowbridge Station (old hand-coloured postcard)
• XP Markings (John Lewis)
• Odds & Ends (Follow-ups to previous topics)

Spring 2020
(36 pages)

• Taunton Concrete Works
• GWR Provender Wagons
• Reading West Bridge Renewal
• B&ER First no.31 (Body used as chapel at Portbury)
• A Broad Gauge van at Yatton
• Stogumber Cattle Dock (1953)
• Taunton Signal & Milepost (follow-up to Pannier 44 photo)
• Henley Distant Signal (follow-up to Pannier 44 comment)
• Trucks at Swindon (identification of trucks in Pannier 44 photo)
• Staff Photograph: the Talyllyn Prize Length Winners (1938)
• Staff Photograph: Technicians in front of DRC 10
• Passenger Luggage in Advance Advertisement (follow-up to Pannier 38 article)

Spring 2019
(36 pages)

• GWR wagon brakes & the Board of Trade Rules
• GWR ‘Private Road’ Notices
• Tornado at Taunton (c1890)
• Castle 7007 on the 11:00 Hereford to Paddington 1953
• TARGET Boards in South Wales
• Early Minehead Coach Workings
• Westbury & Frome Avoiding Lines
• Prefabricated Crossing at Swindon
• Henley Distant Signal (follow-up to Pannier 42 article)
• Ride With Me on the Early Bird (follow-up to Pannier 42 article)
• Peter Squibb & some tales of the GWR in WW2
• Wagon 40137 (Lot 222, completed 1881)
• Two Macaw Bs (with long load of timber baulks)
• Signals at Taunton & Teignmouth
• W3 Mex (2 photos)
• Paddington Approach (1930s photo & trackplan)
• Diagram M13 (follow-up to Pannier 43 article)
• Newton Abbot Station (2 hand-coloured PCs c1910)

Autumn 2018
(36 pages)

• Bristol & South Wales: Changing Patterns of Traffic
• The 1.0pm Plymouth to Crewe (further info & photo following Pannier 42 article)
• GWR Air Services (further info & photos following Pannier 42 article)
• Chepstow Bridge (extract from GWR Magazine)
• Testing Chepstow Bridge 1962 (photos of 2 Kings on bridge)
• Swindon Works Laboratory
• Stand-by Electrical Supplies (official notices for 1930s colour light signalling at Paddington & Temple Meads)
• Outside Framed Parcels Van no. 833 to Diag. M13
• Stapleton Road Station (4 postcards, c1910 – 1914)
• Air-Raid Warning Arrangements (Exeter Division official notice)
• Mystery Lead Ore Wagon (Gloucester R C & W Co 1873 photo)
• More on the Dawlish Subway (follow-up to Pannier 42 photos)
• Wigmore Castle at Maidenhead (1930s Soole photo)
• Steam Lance testing (1945 photo)
• Some superb 7mm engines (4083 by Tony Reynalds, 6000 by Vic Green)
• Inter-Divisional Football Matches (humourous official notices from 1938, 1946, 1947 for Worcester v London matches)

Spring 2018
(36 pages)

• Railways in the Air: GWR Air Services Ltd
• Henley Distant Signal at Mill Lane (Lattice post)
• Bridge Renewal at Great Malvern (follow-up letters to Pannier 41 article)
• A Barnstaple Scene Unravelled (analysis of 2 well-known coach photos)
• Capturing the GWR in Miniature (Pendon report)
• Water Supply to Pylle Hill Goods Depot (1902 bill for 40 years supply!)
• Do You Know Your Train Register (Whiteball Siding, 1978)
• Ride With Me on the Early Bird (from 1938 GW Booklet)
• The 1.0pm Plymouth to Crewe (1930s photos + TCP Extract)
• GWR Footwarmers (Official 1900 Instructions)
• A GWR Platform Lamp (Drawing + Henley-in-Arden photo)
• Excursion at Penarth (1930s mystery photo)
• 9661 at Sonning (1950s photo)
• Iron Mink at Shrewsbury (DW298/024303, photo + further details)
• Siphon G Diag. O10 (Photo of unique vehicle)
• More GWR Hired-in Wagons (follow-up to Pannier 39 article)
• Dawlish in Old Postcards

Summer 2017
(24 pages)

• Redemption Hire Coal Wagons
• Hayes Sleeper Depot
• King George V on 28 June 1927 (2 official photos)
• Diagram O30 Open (photo of 124167)
• Accident at Reading Station 1914: Additional Information (see Pannier 34)
• Newton Abbot Station August 1924 (2 photographs)
• 2387 – A Unique Coach (Diagram D1 ex E8)
• Bridge Renewal at Great Malvern 1953 (official photo)
• Excursion Handbills (1936, 1939, 1951)
• Dean Goods in 7 1/4″ Gauge

Spring 2017
(24 pages)

• Newbury Racecourse Specials (February 1939)
• A Codford Gathering
• Metal Roofed Bloaters (Diag. S11)
• More Tales of Tail Lamps
• GWR ATC Battery boxes
• Three four coupled Tank Engines (3521 class photographs)
• Slip Coach at Reading (April 1953 photographs)
• Three GWR Devon postcards