Issue No. 41 – Autumn 2023

Coach 1507 doors re-build                                                     
Obituaries  A.J. Adams . Robin Lush                                      
Gillett’s Crossing Halt                                                             
L&YR Coaches in South Wales                                               
The Ironclads, History.                                                            
East Lancs. Autumn Gala                                                       
51456 in Service                                                                        
Photos From Facebook                                                              
52044 on Vintage Trains K&WVR                                          
Pug on Wedding Special                                                         
Legacies                                                                                  

Front cover – 51456 in platform 4 Bury Bolton Street – photo Joan Sagar

Issue No. 40 – Spring 2023

Pug Visit to Bluebell Railway
KWVR Spring Gala
752 News  Pug Visit to G-WR
Aspinall/Ivatt Connection
Fings Aint Wot They Used to be (Heywood)  
Seen it all Before Ian G Holt  
Memories of Lockwood. D.R.Smith   
L&YR Lookalikes (Locomotives)   
Pug Chimneys  Letter to the Editor (Pugs)

Front cover – Pug 19 as 11243 on a Bluebell train to East Grinstead
Rear cover – 752 as 51456 on test runs after motion work and
                        boiler tests at Bury

                        All photos from John Sagar

Issue No. 39 – Autumn 2022

  • Pug Diary
  • Pug First Passenger Train + Return to Preston
  • 51456 on the Red Rose Diner
  • 19 and 752 on photo charters
  • The L&YR/LNWR Centenary Gala, ELR
  • 2022 trains on the K&WVR
  • Club Carriage 47 on the Railway Children Film
  • Visitors from Ukraine
  • Whitworth Revisited
  • L&YR Members Remembered

Front cover – Pug 19 on its first ever passenger train

Rear cover – Callum Porter and Tony Cox on 52044 – John Sagar

L&YR and LNWR meet at Ramsbottom, 752 and 1054 – Barry Hilton

Issue No.38 – Spring 2022

  • Pug Diary
  • Coach 1474 Overhaul completed
  • Train Reporting Numbers
  • 51456 E.L.R. Gala
  • 51456 Visits the Spa Valley Railway
  • L&YR Official Colour Postcards
  • The L&YR/LNWR 1922 Amalgamation
  • Pug 19’s First two steamings
  • New Sales Stall at Oxenhope

Front cover – Pug 19’s first journey out of the yard at Bury South

Rear cover – the boiler inspector issuing Pug 19’s final boiler certificate 29th April 2022



Issue No.37 – Winter 2021/2022

  • Obituaries, Nigel Thornley, Jim Hindle
  • Pug Diary
  • Progress on coach 1474
  • 51456’s Exploits
  • The New Barnes Pug Trip
  • 51218 on 1975 AGM Special
  • 11305’s Final Journey
  • A First Class Day Out. Hebblethwaite Family
  • Mixed Traffic – small items
  • Town Fund
  • Tony’s Saloon

Front cover – 752 as 51456 double heading a freight on the East Lancashire Railway with 52322

Back cover – 2 photos of 752 as 51456 on a photographic charter on the East Lancashire Railway (photos R.Stevens)


Issue No.36 – Spring/Summer 2021

  • Pug 19 restoration
  • Brake 3rd 1474 restoration
  • Horwich Narrow Gauge
  • Pug L&Y 310/51206
  • A postcard from Brussels
  • LYR 752 launch
  • 52089 mystery location
  • L&Y locomotives in 1922
  • New L&YR injector sponsored
  • Deaths of Gordon Walker and Dr. John Raines

Front Cover: L&YR 19 and 752 at Bury, keeping warm at night – John Sagar

Back cover: Pug 51218 on Healey Dell Viaduct


Issue No.35 – Winter 2020

  • Pug 19, an illustrated history 1910—2020
  • Brake 3rd 1474, a big lift and back in traffic
  • Recent News and Events
  • 752 at Rainhill
  • Letters to the Editor
  • The Rochdale—Bacup branch. Ian G Holt
  • The Heap Bridge branch
  • Pug Tour to Chadderton

Front Cover: 752 as 51456 running a public service in August 2020 on the East Lancashire Railway

Back cover: 1474 arrival at Bury.  Photo Callum Porter
Steam testing 752 as 51456 with 1474 after repairs.  Photo Keith Savory


Issue No.34 – Summer 2020

  • 51218 Ship Canal Railtour 14 September 1969
  • Glenn Foxley, Obituary
  • Howard Malham, Obituary 
  • A Saddletank heating boiler 
  • 752/51456 Early trains, February and March
  • Some East Lancashire Railway Locomotives 
  • Letters to the Editor, Loco. and C&W notes 
  • New Springs fitted to 1474
  • Royton Junction, with a Hughes brake/3rd 
  • Who was Ross (of “pop” safety valve fame?)

Front Cover. 51456 on a charter goods train. Photos. Richard Stevens.

Rear Cover. 752  The smartest cab of all ?

Issue No.33 – Winter 2019

  • Mode Wheel Railtour
  • The English Game
  • Progress on No.752
  • Colne to Rose Grove Railmotors
  • High Speed Highflyers – A Postscript
  • Scattering of Len Hill’s ashes
  • Loco. & Carriage Notes

Front cover: Front Cover. 752 steams again. Photo. Dr. John Sagar
Rear Cover. 752 derelict at Parsonage Colliery, and in the Rainhill Parade.

Issue No.32 – Summer 2019

  • 51218 Trafford Park Railtour 21 May 1967
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Royal Visit, Duke of Kent, 31st May
  • Obituaries T.T.Sutcliffe, David Moorehouse
  • New Ways to Pay
  • Clenn Foxley, 90
  • High Speed Highflyers (90 with an Atlantic)
  • Latest news and rolling stock reports

Front cover: HRH the Duke of Kent in the Club Carriage – Craig Szlaoszlavek

Rear cover – 752 lifted onto its wheels – Dr John Sagar