A uk base for a global rail operation

Long-term thinking is paying off for Porterbrook at its Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre. RICHARD WILCOCK visits the site of next week’s Rail Live to find out more

AFTER MORE than two decades at the Downpatrick & County Down Railway, experimental railbus RB3, otherwise known as RDB977020, has moved to the Gwendraeth Valley Railway in Carmarthenshire. Originally

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

20213 and 20165 run alongside the river Forth via a loaded MGR from Kincardine Power Station to Longannet Power Station on February 25, 1991. This was a short term and short distance (about two miles)

Keeping a main line steam locomotive running on the national network is no small feat, particularly in the heavily regulated world of 2025. So, how does the team managing one of the scene’s undisputed celebrities – ‘A4’ Sir Nigel Gresley – manage?

EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE