Scottish holidays by rail: 1949

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Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev

To mark the bicentenary of the first public passenger steam railway, Tom Chesshyre picks his top British train trips

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025 takes us to 1948 and a change in railway ownership

In our series celebrating Railway 200, Good Journey founder NAT TAPLIN celebrates the birth of the great British rail holiday and calls for a renaissance in tourism by train

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...