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The railway may have started its artistic life as a f
OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries
In the second of our series exploring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the roads
Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2005 takes us to 1960… and the seaside
An envelope of old pictures has turned Chris Leigh ’s thoughts to narrow gauge and how times have changed where ready-to-run narrow gauge is concerned.
he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd
Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev