However, there is no preview available as the file is 95mb but i will give an outline of the contents and some of the pictures here. Joan would have got this booklet while a VIP guest at the opening of the Timothy Hackworth, Shildon in 1975.


Rail 150 Exhibition Guide – 1825 to 1975 – Chapters of this Book
President’s Welcome – The Rt. Hon Viscount Downe.
Note from the Editor – Alan Bowman
Stockton and Darlington Railway – It’s Place in History. PWB Semmens MA FRIC
Shildon Works – KW Ashbury
GPO Exhibition
Restoration and Preservation of Locomotives – Maurice Burns.
Selection of Stock for Rail 150 Exhibition Cavalcade – Michael Wheeler – Chairman.
Assembling the Exhibition – George Hinchcliffe
Early Locomotion and Rolling Stock – MG Satow.
Express Passenger Locomotives.
Freight Locomotives.
Shunting Locomotives.
Diesel and Petrol Locomotives.
Coaches and Rolling Stock.
Commuter Trains
The New Image
Grand Steam Cavalcade
National Railway museum
Rail Trail
Ideas for a Day Out.
Map.


Some photos from the booklet.