The SLS Journal & the Members Only extras (page updated to 11 Mar 2010)

This page has the contents of the current edition, plus the last previous edition, together with a list of the articles and files currently included in the Member's Only section within Yahoo Groups. Several of these extra features supplement the material in the Journal hence an index to them being here. (More about the Members Only group is outlined here).   Link to Journal contents archive

Current Journal cover picture details
	Front Cover: Pioneer Class 4-car DMU 222018 at Platform 2, Derby Midland station, with Voyager 222032 just in view at Platform 1 with 09.35 Newcastle upon Tyne – Bristol Temple Meads, 26 August 2008. Malcolm Snowball (NB If the picture does not match the text you are seeing a cached image.  To clear in most browsers  - hold down the shift key and then refresh the page)
Link to larger version of current cover picture shown above

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About the Journal

The Society publishes a bi-monthly illustrated Journal, exclusive to members, with authoritative articles on locomotives and the railway scene, past and present, home and overseas, together with the latest stock changes. A valuable resource for all who take the study of railways and locomotion seriously. The S.L.S. Journal has achieved a high reputation with libraries and other professional bodies

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Latest Journal contents

Journal 862  March/April

46 - Society Column
52 - Obituary
53 - Centenary Weekend
61 - The New Vice Presidents
63 - The Prince, Manchester & Tornado
65 - A Narrow Gauge Order That Never Was
69 - The 2009 Christmas Quiz
70 - Steam on the Redhill-Reading Line
72 - SLS Midlands ‘Hush-Hush’ Forum
74 - Midland Exports via Goole
75 - Southern Scenes (photographs)
77 - Tracking a Canadian Stephenson - A Transatlantic Quest
82 - The Perrygrove Railway
84 - The Locomotive Naming That Never Was
87 - Editor’s Postbag
94 - Book Reviews
100 - Abergavenny in the Snow (photographs)
101 - From the SLS Collection (photographs)
102 - The Wheels Locked
102 - News in Brief
104 - SLS Diary

Front Cover: Pioneer Class 4-car DMU 222018 at Platform 2, Derby Midland station, with Voyager 222032 just in view at Platform 1 with 09.35 Newcastle upon Tyne – Bristol Temple Meads, 26 August 2008. Malcolm Snowball

Journal 861 January/February (With apologies for the late posting of this listing)

1 - Society Column
6 - Obituaries
8 - An Early Memento of the Society
10 - On Writing a Biography of the Stephensons
15 - elayed by the Dead
19 - Another Link with Our Past
20 - he Manufacturers Street Railway Company
22 - The ‘Cam Era Relived (photographs)
24 - Darroch of Gourock
26 - Reflections on the SLS/MLS ‘Whitby Moors’ tour, 1965/2007
30 - ‘Cam’ Special 2009 Style
33 - Editor’s Postbag
36 - Book Reviews
42 - What, Where, When?
43 - SLS Diary

Front Cover: The ‘SLS Special’ with panniers 9600, sporting the original SLS headboard, and 9466, both impatiently blowing off steam as they wait for the signal at Kidderminster to rejoin the rail network for the return to Tyseley Warwick Road up the steeply graded Old Hill route, 14 November 2009. Brian Dotson (Note - this photo' is included in the Centenary page)

Index to previous Journal contents.  (Archived here back to mid 2000)

Additional content available to SLS members only as supplemental to the Journal (See Members Only Yahoo Group)

Extra material supplementing several articles published in the Journal has been added to the members only section in the Yahoo Groups.   This material includes -                          

• 35022 A paper covering the Rugby test plant analysis of the as built Bullied Pacifics.
• Two papers covering an analysis of BR Locomotive Resistance
• Hunslet Works list 1865 to 1971
• Comments about predicting boiler behaviour and its influence on Locomotive Performance. (Follow up to articles in the SLS Journal numbers 838 and 841)
• The address at R C Riley's funeral.
• "Steam and speed" - follow up material to articles and letters in the Journal during 2005 and 2006
• "The colour of railways" - Text of the Brian Gilliam Memorial lecture delivered by Andrew Dow, Science Museum London 28 Feb. 2007.
• "Travels in 2006" - An article by Chris Rodway.
• "Working the Lickey" - A three part feature extending the published items arising from the Midlands Area Lickey Forum.
• "The first electric locomotive" - follow up material to an article and correspondence published in Journals during 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• Photo albums - ten albums covering a range of topics.
• Message threads too covering a range of topics.     

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