Rack-and-pinion railways

All aboard as JD Savage takes the fast track through 200 years of train travel.

Hybrid engines and bi-mode locomotives are nothing new. One of the most notorious examples of early experimentation into multiple fuels and ways of driving a locomotive was the Kitson-Still locomotive of 1928. Today largely forgotten, was this one-off 262T a total failure, or simply ahead of its time?

To mark the bicentenary of the first public passenger steam railway, Tom Chesshyre picks his top British train trips

GREG MORSE considers the incident at Nuneaton in June 1975 that claimed the lives of six people, and how the industry continues to focus on preventing any repeat

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025 takes us to 1948 and a change in railway ownership

There’s been much debate about the high cost of both heavy rail investment and new light rail lines. But how about combining the two? In the first of a series looking at light rail aspects, PETER PLISNER examines the prospects for tram-train services