FRONT COVER:

This issue profiles the Severn Valley Railway-based Class 50 Alliance, now responsible for a third of the surviving Class 50s. On September

16, 2017, 50007 Hercules and 50049 Defiance pass through their former BR Western Region stomping ground of Dawlish working 1Z50, the Burton-on-trent to Kingswear ‘The Torbay & Dartmouth Explorer’ charter.