The railway child

DID you really grow up here?” Kerry tried not to shiver as she walked round the empty rooms. And not just because the heating hadn’t been on for a long time and the sound of the rookery in the nearby

A theatre tour of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, produced as if it was in a radio studio and featuring three stars of Doctor Who, will take place next month. Starring Colin Baker as Ebenezer Scro

THE boy was a scrawny little thing with some smudges on his face. He stood in our hall with a label tied to his small case and another pinned on his clothes, just staring around at everything as if he

Britain’s railway network is 200 years old. To celebrate, we meet some later-life rail enthusiasts who have returned to the hobby – just don’t call them trainspotters!

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

INGLEFIELD Publishing Group, Primrose Barry speaking, good morning.” Primrose heard the coins drop at the other end of the line. Someone calling from a telephone kiosk. “Primrose?” Hearing her sister’