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Dr JOSEPH BRENNAN recalls some of the railway structu
Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev
he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd
On the 50th anniversary of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, Simon Jenkins, a trustee since 1975, looks back on the past half century of successes and failures
OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries
THE MUCH-MISSED Somerset & Joint Dorset Railway, between Bath and Bournemouth, might have closed on March 7, 1966, but a part of it is being revived at Shillingstone station, writes John Stretton. The
Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2005 takes us to 1960… and the seaside
