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

PART TWO

07013 – Bury: A few steps forward were made in early August when the locomotive was lifted from its wheels. All wheelsets require tyre turning to restore their profiles, and the Class 07’s sole AEI RT

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

Even before I moved to the Chester area for work in autumn 1955, family visits via the city and its railway hub and on into Wales were regularly undertaken, always by train, but now I was living in Sa

Running a rail timetable relies on the right number of locos, coaches, and staff being fit and in the right place. But on a network the size and complexity of British Rail, sometimes – in fact, often