Scottish holidays by rail: 1949

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Train travel in the dark and trips to the British seaside

Rail’s architectural legacy reaches further than where the rails go -and far beyond the lineside fence or the station walls. TIM DUNN reports

This time of the year is traditionally quiet because many of the summer-only promoters don’t have much to say as they are working behind the scenes to announce programmes, probably sometime in Februar

A solution has been put forward to reopen Edinburgh’s South Suburban Railway for passenger services. And momentum is gathering, as CONRAD LANDIN reports

Even before I moved to the Chester area for work in autumn 1955, family visits via the city and its railway hub and on into Wales were regularly undertaken, always by train, but now I was living in Sa