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This issue’s Ten Pictures are from the various cameras of Dave McAlone, who’s been recording the railway scene since 1979. His first camera was a Zorki, manufactured in the USSR and an inferior copy o

The railway has been shaped by its people -from the early pioneers, through waves of immigration and women in wartime, to today’s diverse leaders. TONY STREETER reports

The urge to create model trains can be traced back to the genesis of the real railway. George Dent examines how what was once a pastime of the affluent few became a mass-market hobby that endures to this day.

A forensics investigator boards the train at Huntingdon. ...

Being too young to go to Shildon in 1975, my railway hobby started with the Liverpool and Manchester Rocket 150 celebrations in May 1980. I have lasting memories of visiting Rainhill for the cavalcade