Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL

As thousands gathered to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway, RAIL’s Features Editor ANDY COMFORT looks at how Locomotion No. 1 once again drew in the crowds

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When did railways begin? It certainly wasn’t 1825, says HOWARD JOHNSTON, as he concludes his round-up of the 1925 Stockton & Darlington centenary cavalcade.

MAURICE BURNS continues his recollections of helping to organise the ‘Rail 150’ celebrations 50 years ago, in 1975, and how the legendary cavalcade came together, thanks to the collaboration of key individuals and volunteers from all over the UK.

In the beginning, God made many things, but He did not make railways; that was left to mankind. What kind of job did mankind do in the construction of the Glasgow & South Western Railway main line? Th