Know your… liveries

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

On Saturday, May 17, Talisman Railwayana Auctions held its latest live auction. Steam nameplates: Trinidad (45634), £4800; Repulse with worksplate (45725), £4500; Persimmon (60050), £4400; and Pyrland

How much of your layout is make-believe? CHRIS LEIGH isn't a slave to prototype fidelity, as he explains.

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

Railway photography for me is about two things: a record for capturing a point in time to preserve a memory and an art form to create a great-looking image. Sometimes for me that is to recreate an ess

PHILIP HAIGH considers who might have control of what under nationalisation and Great British Railways