With a request for funding recently submitted to extend the Northumberland Line, ANDY COMFORT takes a walk along a proposed route from Ashington to the coast

RAIL Columnist

GARY ESSEX looks at the railways that have successfully diversified their income streams, from contract work for main line operators to reinventing themselves as invaluable training sites.

It may be axiomatic to suppose that after the Nationalisation of the railways in 1948, wherever main line trains ran they did so on British Railways’ tracks, as opposed to the position prior to that w

Getting to the heart of the matter

The station’s £140 million rebuild is running several months late, and even when complete it may never realise its potential. HOWARD JOHNSTON investigates