DAVID JUKES mixes third-rail and overhead electrification for his chosen pick of EMUs past and present…

When I started trainspotting in April 1981, it was at Berkswell Station, between Coventry and Birmingham International, and a five-mile bike ride from my home town of Kenilworth. I’d tried Tile Hill s

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,

The long-awaited passenger-carrying debut of battery-powered 230001 on the Greenford branch finally occurred on January 31, the set forming 2G02, the 05.30 West Ealing-Greenford, before working throug

Railway scrapyards have held a, some may argue, morbid fascination with rail enthusiasts for decades. They are the Death Row of the railways, where the chances are if a loco goes in, it isn’t coming o

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