While there were undoubtedly many benefits for a single, nationalised railway, for customers there was one thing lacking: competition. For passengers, the car was a viable alternative in most cases, a

ABOVE: Haymarket-based Class 40 D260 passes Falahill on Borthwick Bank on September 2, 1965, on the Waverley route as its heads south with a delightfully mixed freight for Carlisle. This line would cl

The new Great British Railways livery has elicited some strong responses, but what does it tell us about its future?

Now available from Accurascale is its second batch of Class 66s in OO gauge, these following on from the initial releases in the summer of 2024 in returning the former Hattons tooling to the market. W

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

A good train livery is one that stands out but doesn’t draw attention. Since the onset of Passenger Transport Executives, sectorisation, and especially privatisation, train liveries have veered from the sublime to the sometimes ridiculous. RICHARD WILCOCK counts down his personal favourites