Off the rails 1895

Since my first visit in 1982, four-up in a road-test Jaguar XJ-S HE, Rétromobile has regularly blown me away. The range of incredible Gallic machines always make this Paris show a much-awaited fixture

HOWARD JOHNSTON revisits the disaster, and considers how it may be impossible to prevent it happening again

It’s a quarter of a century since ten people died in the Great Heck train crash, caused by a car driver. RAIL Features Editor ANDY COMFORT was a local BBC journalist who was presenting a radio programme at the time - he recalls that morning, while HOWARD JOHNSTON looks at the lessons learned

When ALFRED FISHER took off on a mission to ride the Tollesbury Line in Essex in the early 1950s, he had no idea of the drama to follow…

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