Argon gas welding of seat backs for British Rail at a new factory unit.

The photograph shows the “Jubilee” engine being coupled up to waggons of coal from Baggeridge Colliery destined for Round Oak steelworks.

The railway was celebrating its 25th birthday, including a visit of the former Great Western Railway Castle class locomotive Defiant from Birmingham Railway Museum. The photograph shows Lady Cobham of Hagley Hall toasting Michael Draper in front of the Ra

A local firm of haulage contractors had the job of moving a 34-ton engine, Monarch, from Sittingbourne in Kent to Welshpool. The photograph shows Dr John Fellows in the cab with Jack Male and Stan Bache looking on.

The museum put on an exhibition entitled “Vanishing Steam”, covering 140 years of steam on the railways. The photograph shows Mr E. Smart looking at a name plate from the locomotive “Himley Hall”.