Rail traffic to winfrith

GARY ESSEX looks at the railways that have successfully diversified their income streams, from contract work for main line operators to reinventing themselves as invaluable training sites.

I believe I accompanied my mother on two separate visits to see her sister who lived in Saltford, east of Bristol, and in May 1954, on the second visit, as I always started my rail journeys from the f

RICHARD WILCOCK visits Wabtec’s Burton-on-Trent site to talk strategy, technology and the uncomfortable realities behind the closure of Doncaster - and why it believes this is the right moment to invest

Running along the western side of Southampton Water, the nine-mile Southern Railway branch line from Totton to Fawley has rarely attracted much attention from railway historians, but there is much of

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.

Castlethorpe sits mid-way between London and Birmingham in the Buckinghamshire countryside on the West Coast main line just north of Wolverton. It witnessed the very beginnings of the railway age as t