In colour 219: the cathcart circle lines

Three miles south-east of Glasgow city centre, Stanier 2-6-2T No. 40153 awaits departure north from Rutherglen on Saturday, May 20, 1961. On the north side of the West Coast route, a triangle of lines

Something to say? This is your platform...

With Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle reuniting at Didcot Railway Centre for the first time in 36 years, THOMAS BRIGHT continues the definitive story of the last time these former rivals came together, in Western Australia in 1989.

Just a few days before the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) was due to run its April 19 track bashing tour around Ayrshire, it was advised by Network Rail that it couldn’t cover the Killoc

With through train and ferry tickets available from most stations in Britain to Ireland and the Netherlands, ANDY COMFORT samples Sail Rail and wonders how many people know about this way of travelling...

This was not an all that well-patronised rail tour, but perhaps because of that, it was very enjoyable and very successful (in a way). It was a fine day for what proved to be the last steam working fr