Welcome to Stage 1 of the What Really Happened to Steam website.  Its purpose is:

(a) to give access to The Railway Magazine article published on 7th October 2009 (in the November issue) which explains the aims of the HSBT Project and how you can help.  Please read the article carefully before getting in contact.

(b) to give the contact details of the 7 key people involved in the Project.

(c) to emphasise that – in the initial stage of the Project – it will not be possible to answer individual queries.  However, for those contributing information, we will try and reciprocate as best we can.

Stage 2 of this website. 
The second stage of this website will be introduced once all the information readily available has been absorbed and it is clear what the outstanding queries are.  At that point (probably around Spring 2010) it is likely to incorporate features such as the top 20 unsolved disposals, a gallery, links to relevant websites and articles, publications that may be of interest and your scrapyard reminiscences.

Thank you for your interest in this Project.

The HSBT Project team