In colour 218: passenger duties between reading (general) and the solent

Strolling across the beautiful Grosvenor Gardens in the late 1950s/early 1960s, one was greeted by the imposing sight of the statue of General Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Force

When my mother announced that she was going to visit her sister in Saltford, a village on the eastern outskirts of Bristol, I jumped at the chance of accompanying her. This was in the spring of 1952,

The seed sown by the opening and success of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) led to a rapid increase in the number of railways in Britain as other ventures were promoted, the Liverpool & Manch

I feel sorry for the people who use ...

Scanning BR’s Scottish Region summer timetable for 1962 reveals how the face of the railway north of the border has changed over the past six decades

With a handful of trains now running, is all the work done on the first section of EWR? PAUL CLIFTON finds out