221: coal by rail for ham halls power station

PHILIP HAIGH works his way through a new book on the history of railway electrification in Britain, and considers how history could be repeating itself

CONSIDER FOR A moment, as we are pressured into adopting zero-emissions vehicles and the ban on the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles becomes imminent, that Britain, in public transport at least, was on

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

It’s not often that a visit to a museum has you seeing, hearing, smelling and even tasting the past, but the Black Country Living Museum, just north of Dudley, 10 miles west of Birmingham, has you doi

Benefits could come from development of battery power

Railway photography for me is about two things: a record for capturing a point in time to preserve a memory and an art form to create a great-looking image. Sometimes for me that is to recreate an ess