Pullman carriages of the caledonian railway and lms

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

From third-class seats open to the elements, to the gold-plated interiors of Queen Victoria’s Royal Train, we mark this milestone anniversary with a nostalgic look through the ages

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one

Shock as Deltic runs without any headbords… in public! The Deltic Preservation Society has launched an investigation after one of its locos was seen hauling a train without a single headboard. The inc

On Saturday, June 23, 1962, our family visited York, a birthday treat for my younger brother and I, whose birthdays fell five days later and five days earlier, respectively. For this nine-year-old tra

In the Black Isle Bar in Inverness last year after D213 Andania had arrived in the city on a charter from Crewe, I collared Nick Gibbons, of Locomotive Services, and asked him about the chances of tak