The year 1982 was a good one for me. It was my third year of trainspotting and when I really ramped it up, with epic trips to Scotland, the North East, the London depots, and South Wales. These were t

WHEN Billy Butlin opened his flagship seaside resort in Skegness in 1936 promising “a week’s holiday for a week’s wages”, he made affordable, all-inclusive breaks available to British working classes

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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

Sixty years ago this month, on March 6 1966, the Western Region achieved two major goals with the end of both steam power and the Somerset & Dorset route – bringing a mighty era to a rather grubby end.