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Magazine |
Code |
|
|
British
Railways Illustrated |
BRILL |
British
Railway Journal |
BRJ |
Backtrack |
BT |
Great
Trains |
GT |
Great
Western Railway Journal |
GWRJ |
History
of Railways |
HR |
Locomtives
Illustrated |
LI |
London
Railway Record |
LLR |
Midland
Railway Review |
MIR |
Modern
Railways |
MR |
Modern
Railways Pictorial |
MRP |
Modern
Railways Pictorial Profile |
MRPP |
Motive
Power Monthly |
MPM |
Narrow
Gauge Times |
NGT |
Narrow
Gauge World |
NGW |
Northern
Rail Enthusiast |
NRE
* |
Rail
(Rail Enthusiast) |
RAIL
* |
Railway
& Travel Monthly |
RTM |
Railway
Bylines |
RB |
Railway
Digest Scotland |
RDS |
Railway
Magazine |
RM |
Rail
Pictorial |
RP |
Railway
Pictorial & Loco.Review |
RPLR
* |
Railway
Reflections |
RR |
Railway
Photography & Video |
RPV |
Railway
World (Railways) |
RW
* |
Railways
South East |
RSE |
Standard
Gauge Times |
SGT |
Steam
Alive (Trains Illustrated) |
SA |
Steam
Days |
SD |
Steam
Railway |
SR |
Steam
World |
SW |
Trains
Illustrated |
TI |
Those magazines marked with an asterisk have undergone previous name changes
but, for simplicity, a single code is used. Thus the code RW is used
throughout the Register to denote 'Railway World' and this includes the period
prior to September 1952 when it was called 'Railways'. Similarly, the code NRE
has been used throughout to cover the evolution of Northern Railways from 'North
West Railway Enthusiast' (volume 1.1 (Oct.1981) to volume 2.5 (March 1983))
through 'Northern Railway Enthusiast' (volume 2.6 (April 1983) to volume 3.8
(June/July 1984)); and RAIL is used throughout to denote both 'Rail' and
its predecessor 'Rail Enthusiast'.
Click here to
see a list of all the magazines that have been used.
The magazine code is followed by a reference to the magazine issue. For monthly
magazines this is a six-figure code, the first four numbers for the year and the
last two for the month (eg.195605 is the code for May 1956). For other magazines
the code is the issue number. [Example : TI 195712 refers to Trains
Illustrated (1st series) December 1957, whereas TI 25 refers to Trains
Illustrated (2nd series) issue number 25.]
'Rail Enthusiast' first appeared
on a bi-monthly basis in 1981. In 1982, publication became monthly and then
fortnightly in 1989. The fortnightly publication of 'Rail' has created a problem
with this method of classification. However, since issue 50 (November 1985), the
issue number has been clearly shown on the cover and therefore, the problem has
been solved by referencing 'Rail' magazines since number 50 by the issue number
rather than the month. Issue numbers have not been used throughout for 'Rail'
because they cannot be readily found on issues prior to November 1985. Thus an
early, unnumbered issue is shown as, for example, RAIL 198112, and a
later issue will be referenced as, for example, RAIL 72.
'Steam Days' was initially
numbered but with the October 1991 issue (number 26), it became a monthly
magazine and issues from then on are referenced using the date rather than the
issue number. Similarly, "Steam World" and "Steam Railway",
from the January 1991 issues onwards, are referenced using the date rather than
issue number (numbers 43 and 129 respectively), that is:
SD 25
- the last issue referenced by number
SD 26 becomes SD 199110 - the first issue referenced by date
SW 42
- the last issue referenced by number
SW 43 becomes SW 199101 - the first issue referenced by date
SR 128
- the last issue referenced by number
SR 129 becomes SR 199101 - the first issue referenced by date
For
those who have bound volumes, the issue number will not be immediately obvious
and the following table may prove of use:
Year |
RAIL |
Steam
Railway |
Steam
World |
Steam
Days |
1979 |
<not
published> |
1-3 |
<not
published> |
<not
published> |
1980 |
<not
published> |
4-9 |
<not
published> |
<not
published> |
1981 |
1-5 |
10-20 |
1-9 |
<not
published> |
1982 |
6-15 |
21-32 |
10-21 |
<not
published> |
1983 |
16-27 |
33-44 |
22-32 |
<not
published> |
1984 |
28-39 |
45-56 |
<not
published> |
<not
published> |
1985 |
40-51 |
57-68 |
<not
published> |
<not
published> |
1986 |
52-63 |
69-80 |
<not
published> |
1-3 |
1987 |
64-75 |
81-92 |
<not
published> |
4-7 |
1988 |
76-87 |
93-104 |
<not
published> |
8-11 |
1989 |
88-111 |
105-116 |
<not
published> |
12-15 |
1990 |
112-137 |
117-128 |
33-42 |
16-21 |
1991 |
|
129-140 |
43-54 |
22-28 |
In all cases the issue code is followed by the page number. (For example, Addison
Rd RM 194107 319 means that there is a photograph of Addison Road
station in the July 1941 issue of Railway Magazine on page 319.)
Where the reference is to a book rather than a magazine, it consists of a
six-figure number, the first part of which indicates the publisher and the last
part indicates the title. The title of the book and the publisher can be found
by looking up the number in the list of book codes. The publishers are listed in
a very approximate order of importance since, in earlier versions which treated
all publishers equally, I very quickly ran out of code numbers! Thus the four
digit codes 0001 to 0999 are used for publishers which have upto 100 relevant
books on their lists, three digit codes 100 to 199 allow for up to 1000 books
per publisher and the larger railway publishers have a two digit code in the
range 20 to 99 to allow for 10000 books each. Some anomalies are now evident
but, with luck, this arrangement should provide sufficient codes for the
foreseeable future.
Click here to
see a list of all the publishers' names.
The part of the code which specifies the actual book consists of 2, 3 or 4
digits depending on the publisher, as indicated above. Some examples may be
useful :
004402
- publisher code 0044, book code 02 (ie. Cheshire Libraries,
"Memories of North Staffs.Rly")
105004 - publisher code 105, book code 004 (ie. Atlantic
Publishers, "Branch Line Memories Vol.3")
210101 - publisher code 21, book code 0101 (ie. Oxford
Publishing Co., "LNWR Recalled")
The publication code is followed
by:
a) the page number of the photograph; or,
b) the number of the photograph or plate (if there are no page numbers); or,
c) the photograph page number (if page numbers and photograph numbers are both
missing ).
A page number is entered simply
as the number; a photograph number is prefixed with *; and a photograph page
number is prefixed with a 'p'. Thus,
12 indicates page number 12
*12 indicates photograph (plate) number 12
p12 indicates (un-numbered) photograph page 12
References of the third type are
the most inconvenient since they can only be found by actually counting the
photograph pages.
Click
here for a full list of publisher codes and book references.
References to some of the commercially-available photographic collections have
been included and it is from sources such as these that photographs of the more
obscure stations are often likely to be found.
The prefix used to denote
photographic collections is PC/... and the actual collection can be
identified by adding a sequence of letters. The list of photographic collections
currently referenced is:
Prefix |
Collection |
PC/ACI |
Andrew
C.Ingram |
PC/BM |
Brian
Miller |
PC/DJ |
D.K.Jones |
PC/FD |
Frank
Dean |
PC/HD |
Hugh
Davies |
PC/Hey |
Heyday |
PC/Joanes |
Joanes |
PC/Mowat |
Mowat |
PC/Pam |
Pamlin |
PC/PM |
Photomatic |
PC/RT |
Rokeby-Thompson |
PC/SD |
Steve
Davies |
(Few of these collections are referenced in full.)
These photographic collections are frequently advertised in the Classified
Adverts section of several railway magazines and I have therefore not included
contact addresses since the distributors may not wish their addresses to be
published in this way.
Note that since compiling the register, the Rokeby-Thompson collection, which
was distributed by Robert Humm, has now been sold and is marketed as 'Stations
U.K.'
There are several other major collections of railway station photographs which
could possibly be included in future editions of this register. Of course,
anyone else is welcome to provide details of their own commercially available
photographic collections. The more the merrier!
A suffix is sometimes added to the page number after the magazine or publisher
code. The possible suffixes are:
A : Illustrated article
+ : A series of photographs starting on the page given
The A suffix is used to denote a reference to a photographic rather than
textual article. The + suffix is used when a station features in a range
of consecutive pages (or photgraphs) but space does not permit the precise range
to be specified. For example,
[Abbotsbury 210049 Pt.2 cover, 9-30] has become [Abbotsbury 210049 Pt.2
cover, 9+].
If there are several photographs of the station in the issue but the spread of
page numbers makes it impossible to list them all, then the word 'various'
is used. For example,
[Nottingham Victoria 210106 33,57,58,82,89,94,95,112,116,123,139,146-148]
has become [Nottingham Victoria 210106 various].
Disclaimer
: This information is given in good faith in the belief that it is correct. I
accept no responsibility for circumstances arising from its use.
©
2001 Clive Williams