Pressing issues to help eurostar fulfil its ambitions

Now firmly established as a leading specialist in the maintenance, overhaul and servicing of locomotives and other items of rolling stock for a number of operators, it is sometimes easy to forget that

Continuing our survey of Britain’s standard gauge new-build projects, this month we turn our attention to those resurrecting designs from the LNER’s pre ‐Grouping predecessors.

The late 1830s and the 1840s was a period of intensive railway building, with the network expanding rapidly throughout the country, and a growing ambition was to create a through route from London to