Britain’s coal industry

In the hills above Blaenau Ffestiniog lie the remains of RHOSYDD QUARRY . Once a hub of industry, now abandoned and left to decay, it’s a place that echoes with whispers of the past.

It’s not often that a visit to a museum has you seeing, hearing, smelling and even tasting the past, but the Black Country Living Museum, just north of Dudley, 10 miles west of Birmingham, has you doi

It will be 50 years this September since construction of the New Moelwyn Tunnel – a vital part of the Ffestiniog Railway’s Deviation project and extension to Blaenau Ffestiniog – got under way. This is the inside story... literally.

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

Ballast Hills is a largely forgotten, unconsecrated burial site in the heart of Newcastle. Also known locally as Grannies Fields or Plaguey Fields, it became the final resting place for generations of