National railway heritage awards 2024

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

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

With this year’s ‘Railway 200’ celebrations now upon us, DR JOSEPH BRENNAN looks at the remnants from the original 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway that we can still see today