As the company gets ready to operate its final charter trains next month, PIP DUNN looks back over half a century of Pathfinder’s popular excursions covering the length and breadth of the UK network

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

PART TWO

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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

One of the country’s newest train operating companies is Europhoenix. Already a ‘household name’ in railway circles, it has been in business for several years, firstly facilitating exporting of locos