Mallard 75: Celebrating Britain’s Greatest Steam Moment
Read Now Mallard 75 is being published to coincide with one of the greatest occasions in the history of worldwide railway preservation. On [...]
Beating Beeching
Read Now The 50th anniversary of the famous report by British Railways chairman Dr Richard Beeching which announced the closure of thousands of [...]
Beeching: The Inside Track
Read Now To mark the 50th anniversary of the Beeching Axe, the popular name given to his report which listed huge parts of [...]
Beeching – 50 Years of the Axeman
Read Now Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, it was half a century ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed [...]
The Ones That Got Away
Read Now Railway heritage enthusiasts are well served by the legendary locos that have survived into preservation - but not every engine was [...]
The Changing Face of Railfreight
Read Now Freight services on British railway lines have changed dramatically over the last 40 to 50 years. The Changing Face of Railfreight [...]
Heritage Diesel and Electric Locomotives
Read Now It’s now more than 40 years since the first ex-British Rail main line diesel locomotive, D821 Greyhound, was bought for preservation. [...]
Great British Railway Firsts
Read Now The invention of the world’s first self-propelled railway locomotive in the form of Cornishman Richard Trevithick’s steam engine proved to be [...]
Darlington – The home of rail engineering in the north-east
Read Now It’s almost 200 years since the small town of Darlington emerged as the cradle for a rail industry that transformed travel [...]
Legendary Locomotives
Read Now There was a time when every ground-breaking or record-breaking feat by a new-type locomotive would see the footplate crew, designer and [...]