First trains tested over the new east west rail project

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

PAUL BIGLAND completes his seven-day Rail Rover tour of the rail network on Scotland’s west coast

For Part 4 of our new-build steam locomotive projects survey, we put those replicating extinct Great Western Railway designs under the microscope.