Something for everyone on lsl north-west charter

AFTER NEARLY 40 years in preservation, the Class 40 Appeal has agreed to sell 40012 Aureol to Andania Engineering (AE), which intends to return it to the main line with Locomotive Services. As this is

Devon debut for Coradias The first runs for a Class 175 in Devon took place on June 23, this seeing 175002 make four return trips between Plymouth and Newton Abbot, albeit operated by Rail Operations

A truly wonderful picture of 47593 Galloway Princess working 1Z34, the 12.32 Fort William-Crewe ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ support train, at Lochan a’Chlaidheimh, just north of Rannoch, on June 28. Out o

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

In the Black Isle Bar in Inverness last year after D213 Andania had arrived in the city on a charter from Crewe, I collared Nick Gibbons, of Locomotive Services, and asked him about the chances of tak