Hornby lms ‘princess royal’ class ‘turbomotive’ – in detail

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

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

On Saturday, June 23, 1962, our family visited York, a birthday treat for my younger brother and I, whose birthdays fell five days later and five days earlier, respectively. For this nine-year-old tra

JUNE SAW a number of diesel galas staged at some of the established heritage lines, with a number of visiting locomotives providing enticing line-ups for modern traction followers. The West Somerset R

The switch to TOPS numbers in the early 1970s was, overall, mostly straightforward, but there were a few locos that were allocated numbers – and changes affected them before they were physically appli

EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE