The Colonel

The Journal of the Colonel Stephens Society

 

 

 

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'The Colonel' is an informative journal containing, News, Reviews, Reports and articles about the life and times of Colonel Holman Fred Stephens and the railways he was involved with.

It is produced quarterly and delived free to members of the 'Colonel Stephens Society'

 

 

 

 

 

A bumper 28-page issue of 'The Colonel' (No. 97) was published last week.

Robert Kosmider, proprietor of specialist kit maker Steam & Things, explains why he produces models of the Colonel's railways. The missing link between Bodiam and Robertsbridge features in an historical piece by Tom Burnham who explains why the restoration started from Tenterden, while Mark Yonge describes recent progress on extending the line from Bodiam towards Robertsbridge. Tony Adams in 'Dispatches' imagines what HFS would do in the present situation. He even suggests a diesel-powered replica of Gazelle!

John Simmonds recalls his childhood at Eythorne where he observed the East Kent Railway at work. Albyn Austin laments the candidates for preservation which never made it in an article entitled 'The Ones That Got Away'. He includes Dom, the Jersey Eastern Railway Sentinal railcar and the Wolseley railmotor.

Several issues of 'The Colonel' have contained information about rail guns on the Colonel's lines. This time we have a reproduction of a plan of a siding for a rail gun installed on a section of the abandoned Selsey Tramway. A little more light is shed on the mysterious and short-lived through carriage from London to Tenterden.

David Powell reports the latest information on the Society's next Members' Weekend to be based at the National Railway Museum in York, starting on Saturday 15th May.

All this and the regular columns: Press Digest, Jackson's Jottings and Dispatches, together with a new one, 'Blasts From the Past'.

 

The Colonel is distributed  to members of the Colonel Stephens Society only. The cost is only £7 a year. Why not enlist now? The membership form can be printed from this website: http://www.colonelstephenssociety.co.uk/Membership.html
 
If you are already a member, but your copy does not arrive within the next few days, perhaps you've had what our Membership Secretary calls a 'senior moment' and have forgotten to pay your subs? If so, contact him on: membership@colonelsstephenssociety.co.uk
 
Ross Shimmon
Editor
'The Colonel'