Naming the peaks part one: the mountain names

Sadly, I never saw the prototype Deltic when it was working on either the West Coast or East Coast Main Lines between 1955 and 1961, but its performance led to an order being placed with English Elect

Fifty years ago, BR allowed steam to run to Shildon under its own power for the big S&D 150 event. HOWARD JOHNSTON reveals that some invited engines – including National Collection ‘Battle of Britain’ Winston Churchill – didn’t make it.

June 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the first Class 37/4s entering traffic. Four decades on, 13 of the 31 locos remain in use. I don’t want to go over too much of their early history as it’s been

The recent glut of shunter releases has been bolstered in recent weeks with the arrival of the Class 02 shunter from Heljan. This plugs a further gap in the range of ready-to-run diesel shunters and l

D2767 – Bo’ness: One of just two surviving ex-BR North British Shunters, D2767, has recently moved under its own power for the first time in five years after repairs by a small team of volunteers were

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025 takes us to 1948 and a change in railway ownership