Gwr celebrates the opening of its new station at ashley down

The late 1830s and the 1840s was a period of intensive railway building, with the network expanding rapidly throughout the country, and a growing ambition was to create a through route from London to

PART THREE

Part two of PAUL BIGLAND’s All-Line Rover trip takes him to South Wales, then to England’s South Coast and onwards towards London, on trains battered by the elements… and teenage passengers