The kent & east sussex line in the early 1950s

Castlethorpe sits mid-way between London and Birmingham in the Buckinghamshire countryside on the West Coast main line just north of Wolverton. It witnessed the very beginnings of the railway age as t

I believe I accompanied my mother on two separate visits to see her sister who lived in Saltford, east of Bristol, and in May 1954, on the second visit, as I always started my rail journeys from the f

Running along the western side of Southampton Water, the nine-mile Southern Railway branch line from Totton to Fawley has rarely attracted much attention from railway historians, but there is much of

If there is one principle that has been absolutely clear in railway preservation, it is that nearly anything is possible. Whether it has been facing daunting engineering challenges, restoring locomoti

With a request for funding recently submitted to extend the Northumberland Line, ANDY COMFORT takes a walk along a proposed route from Ashington to the coast

The station’s £140 million rebuild is running several months late, and even when complete it may never realise its potential. HOWARD JOHNSTON investigates