What did the diesels ever do for us?

Stood alone inside Derby Litchurch Lane at 07.30 on Saturday, August 2, day two of The Greatest Gathering, the biggest railway event in decades, it was eerily quiet. It wouldn’t be like this in 30, 60

‘Black Five’ No. 44932, ‘A3’ No. 60103 ...

There’s no escaping it. The issue with charter trains, and why they cost so much to run, is the lack of decent, suitable and accessible rolling stock. There is also a definite lack of really nice coac

RICHARD WILCOCK joins the thousands at Alstom’s Derby Litchurch Lane facility to celebrate 200 years of railway history

Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail .

A START on the main line testing of GBRf’s new Stadler Class 99s, running under their own power, started on July 23 when 99001 worked 4Q90, the 21.50 Peterborough Yard-Doncaster Decoy Yard test train.