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Castlethorpe sits mid-way between London and Birmingham in the Buckinghamshire countryside on the West Coast main line just north of Wolverton. It witnessed the very beginnings of the railway age as t

We rarely have a plan for our campervan adventures, preferring instead to point our noses in a general direction of travel and play it by ear. This summer in the UK was no exception as we left our hom

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These days, there’s a lot of talk about the politics of personality, but standing in an extensive cave system near West Wycombe, we were transported to a time when politics was at the centre of a scen

RICHARD WILCOCK visits Wabtec’s Burton-on-Trent site to talk strategy, technology and the uncomfortable realities behind the closure of Doncaster - and why it believes this is the right moment to invest