North to thurso in the br blue era

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

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

The article ‘A whirlwind Scottish shed bash: 1965’ (Steam Days, May 2023) reminded me of an epic Scottish shed and line bash I was fortunate enough to undertake in August 1959, while steam was still p

Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL

In the beginning, God made many things, but He did not make railways; that was left to mankind. What kind of job did mankind do in the construction of the Glasgow & South Western Railway main line? Th

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