Metro-land’s legacy for today’s railway

OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries

FRED SCULTHORP

The style set is returning to the very neighbourhoods it once made a habit of spurning, finds Will Hosie

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

In the second of our series exploring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the roads

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