PART TWO

With the fabled ‘Collection X’ locomotives out in the open at last, several are moving to pastures new. One locomotive moved to its new home by steam power – but not in the way you might expect. SIMON COLBECK was there to witness the extraordinary journey.

PART TWO

From giant levers to tiny mouse clicks: it’s taken a year longer than promised and cost more than £120 million, but a major project is now nearing completion.

T he National Railway Heritage Awards enjoyed another ...

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