Coming up in the june issue

My wife is already commenting that it’s getting colder and hinting that the central heating needs to go on. My dog walks are getting earlier and earlier – yup, there’s no escaping it, autumn is here,

One of the things I miss most from the current railway scene is our locomotive workshops. They were such fascinating places to visit, because they illustrated perfectly the life story of locomotives f

This month’s 10 Pictures come from Richard Hargreaves. Born and still living in Telford, Richard inherited his dad’s interest in railways from an early age with family holidays providing the opportuni

D9537 – Wirksworth: An August working party started with giving the brake frame a second coat of grey oxide. The cooler group was also given a good degrease. Inside the loco, a start was made on scrap

LEFT: D1618, allocated to LMML (London Midland Region, Midland Lines) at Toton, is away from its usual operating sphere as it gingerly crosses a new bridge over what will become the M6. The train is o

Pathfinder Railtours is facing a serious threat to its future after a series of poorly-selling trains combined with a mass of cancellations – sometimes because the trains were not breaking even and so