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May 2008 Edition Out On 17th April
May 2008 edition of BackTrack is out on the 17th April. It is packed with Railway articles and pictures. See what's in May's journal.
June 2008 edition will be out on the 15th May.
BACKTRACK STEAMS INTO MORE W.H.SMITH SHOPS
W.H.Smith have informed us that they will be selling Backtrack in more of there shops starting from late April 2008. Why not look to see if there is an outlet near you.
This section lists some of the outlets which sells the journal.
BACKTRACK SUBSCRIPTION
When you go to the shop is BackTrack sold out? Is it easy to buy BackTrack in your area? Do you want to receive a copy delivered each month? Why not take out a BackTrack subscription?
The cost of subscription is the same as if you purchase it in the shops. Find out how to subscribe now!
BackTrack Magazine
Backtrack, 'Britain's Leading Historical Railway Journal', covers all aspects of railway history from its earliest days through to more recent events up to around ten
years before now, including:
- Early railway history from the 'pre-Stephenson' era
- Steam locomotive history
- Diesel locomotive history
- Electric locomotive history
- Railway company history
- Railway carriages and wagons
- Railway Stations
- Railway ships, hotels and road vehicles
- Railway economic and social history
- Railway publicity and advertising
Backtrack's contributors include many of today's leading railway history writers. From the beginning the magazine has maintained a reputation for its production values and each issue contains a
wealth of photographs reproduced to the highest standards, including a generous selection of historic colour. Published monthly, Backtrack is THE magazine for all who are interested in British railway history.
Search For Subjects
If you want to search this site or independent websites which have indexed BackTrack and other Railway magazines, look at the search page.
Editor
Michael Blakemore
Tel /Fax 01347 824397
E-mail:
pendragonpublishing@btinternet.com
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Recently Published
Volume 5 of the Railways in Retrospect series of books was published recently. See what is in Caledonian in LMS Days.
BOOKS
Pendragon Publishing produce railway books. Are you interested in Railway books? Have you got the
Railways In Transition series of book? Why not look through the Pendragon Publishing books!
NOT SEEN BACKTRACK!
If you have not seen BackTrack why not look through our sample e
-journal. This shows the type, range and quality of the railway articles which appear in the magazine each month.
WANT A BACK ISSUE
Look at the articles which have been in BackTrack journal. See
what was is in the 2006 issues or earlier this year. If you want a back issue of BackTrack then see how to order back issues.
WANT TO WRITE AN ARTICLE FOR BACKTRACK
If you are thinking of writing an article for submission to BackTrack here is some advice and guidelines
on which subjects, styles and photographs are likely to be accepted. See the guidelines for authors page.
LINKS SECTION
A links section has been added of sites of interest to the site visitors.
If you run or own a site and want to be included please see the links section.
CONVERSION CHARTS
Different people are familiar with different systems of measurement. Some with Imperial and some with
Metric. To help readers convert to the unit they are familiar with links to a conversion site have been provided in the links section. So if you wondered what speed Mallard
achieved in miles per hour, Kilometres per hour or feet per second the conversion site will work it out for you. See the links section.
***BackTrack Index 1986 - 2006***
Do you remember an article in Backtrack but can't recall which issue it was in?
Or do you want to find out if a particular subject has ever been featured in Backtrack
Then you need to see the Backtrack Cumulative Index to Volumes 1 to 20! To find out more see the BackTrack Index.
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