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

RAIL Columnist

With a request for funding recently submitted to extend the Northumberland Line, ANDY COMFORT takes a walk along a proposed route from Ashington to the coast

I DON’T know if it’s worse attempting to drive up an icy hill or drive down one. I certainly won’t forget that horrible feeling of helplessness many winters ago, driving down the Reedie Hill road into

ABOVE: Haymarket-based Class 40 D260 passes Falahill on Borthwick Bank on September 2, 1965, on the Waverley route as its heads south with a delightfully mixed freight for Carlisle. This line would cl

This small, two-road engine shed stood just south of Penrith station and saw its significance steeply decline from the mid-1950s onwards, until it shut in 1962.