“a true gentleman as well as a design genius”

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

This month’s 10 pictures comes from well-known and renowned West Country photographer Bernard Mills, who has been taking pictures for several decades now. Railways were in his blood from infancy, and

Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev

‘I NEVER SET out to be a car designer – I just sort of became one,’ says Frank Stephenson. It’s an odd admission from the man who penned iconic cars such as the McLaren P1, BMW’s first Mini and the Ma

LOCOMOTIVE SERVICES’ Peak 45118 The Royal Artilleryman had a busy last week of May, which started on May 26 when it became the first Class 45 to visit St Pancras since 2004, followed by a rededication

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)