The ‘cornish riviera express’ and its jubilee

LEFT: D1618, allocated to LMML (London Midland Region, Midland Lines) at Toton, is away from its usual operating sphere as it gingerly crosses a new bridge over what will become the M6. The train is o

Those of us privileged to have participated in the final years of steam on the Class 1 services emanating out of London’s Waterloo station were indeed blessed. For sure, although the condition and cle

J une 10, 1989. Another Network Day and there was only one thing on my mind – Class 50 mileage. Sadly, a week before, my favourite, 50039 Implacable, was condemned and joined other old faves on the sc

One of the things I miss most from the current railway scene is our locomotive workshops. They were such fascinating places to visit, because they illustrated perfectly the life story of locomotives f

Pathfinder Railtours is facing a serious threat to its future after a series of poorly-selling trains combined with a mass of cancellations – sometimes because the trains were not breaking even and so

In the introduction to their 1967 David & Charles book The Cambrian Railways Volume 1: 1852-1888, Rex Christensen and R W Miller say that the Cambrian was in many ways a paradox – it was the largest o