Early days of the class 47s

Even before I moved to the Chester area for work in autumn 1955, family visits via the city and its railway hub and on into Wales were regularly undertaken, always by train, but now I was living in Sa

Dear Editor: The article on the GWR Hall class locos and the photo taken from Westbury Lane bridge, Purley, Berks as it was then, brought back wartime memories as a 6 year old boy. The signals shown a

As the company gets ready to operate its final charter trains next month, PIP DUNN looks back over half a century of Pathfinder’s popular excursions covering the length and breadth of the UK network

Further to the article in the June 2025 issue on USA tank No. 30064 and its supporting overview of the S100 class 0-6-0Ts that arrived on these shores, the following may help clarify matters, given th

Following on from the 1828-32 ‘pioneer engine’ names feature in the September 2025 issue, we return for later locos in the same Royal Scot series. With the exception of Lancashire Witch, the names so

Provision likely to be on an ‘as required’ basis