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

Pick up the phone, call your local railway, offer to volunteer, and it could be the start of a whole new adventure, says ALEX ALDER. You might even go the whole hog and buy an engine…

Transport Select Committee report on investment exposes years of inconsistency and uncertainty in key areas

Preliminary reports appear to show that the cause of January’s high speed train crash in Spain was a broken rail. And with several broken rail incidents in the UK recently, the spotlight is on welding methods and inspections. PETER PLISNER investigates

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

I doubt there are any drivers still alive who were among some of the first to be trained on driving the English Electric Type 5s – the famous Deltic – in 1961. For those who were trained at the time,