On a leisurely weekend break, the last thing I expected to be wearing was a hard hat with a headlamp, a battery pack and a pair of wellingtons. But there I was, fully togged up – along with seven othe

Something to say? This is your platform...

Do you ever find yourself away from home territory on a journey, by train or car, and across a field you spot the outline of what can only be an old railway embankment, and you start to muse as to its

My husband, John, decided that he wanted to visit the Haynes Motor Museum, located near the small village of Sparkford in Somerset. As a lad he and his mates had spent many happy hours tinkering with

Under the surface of Greater Manchester Mayor’s ambitions to drive forward rail transport in the region

We’ve already seen how railways feature in films, but in his latest Top 10 STEPHEN ROBERTS counts down some of the locations used in TV series