With the locomotive market in OO gauge now well and truly saturated, manufacturers have begun to turn to the still under-represented world of multiple units for new projects, with several key EMU desi

Standing at Shrewsbury station on a surprisingly mild Halloween morning, I feel like I’m in something of a timewarp. For a start, not only does the station itself have a pleasing number of ‘proper’ se

This time of the year is traditionally quiet because many of the summer-only promoters don’t have much to say as they are working behind the scenes to announce programmes, probably sometime in Februar

RIGHT: On June 4, 1979, 03158 shunts at Ipswich Lower Yard, with the obligatory match wagon needed to make sure the track circuits were operated correctly. It is near the National Carriers depot and s

Everyone is now an expert on rail security… The one good thing to come out of the horrific stabbings on an LNER train at Huntingdon is that every MP and newspaper editor have suddenly become qualified

More Mk. 5 sets prepared for Chiltern Railways For a few days in late October, Long Marston was devoid of Mk. 5 sets following the removal of CH09 (11509, 12725-727, 12809) to Eastleigh Works by 37608