Trains of thought

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 we are asked who invented the railways, we can confidently say we did – Britain. But precisely who was involved and how it all developed is a long story. By the end of the 18th century, the Indus

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,

When Wayne Webb was searching for inspiration that would allow him to run both Western and Southern Region stock, a small station in North Devon proved the perfect subject.

Railway 200 has been quite the event for shining a light on the role that railways have played in shaping Britain since 1825. Given that the subject is so vast, we first looked at this in our May edit

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