The 1954-built british railways standard ‘9f’ 2-10-0s

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

GB RAILFREIGHT’S first two Stadler Class 99 Electro-Diesels, 99001/002, arrived in UK on June 10, when they docked at the Port of Bristol. They were then moved by lorries to the nearby Avonmouth Hanso

The switch to TOPS numbers in the early 1970s was, overall, mostly straightforward, but there were a few locos that were allocated numbers – and changes affected them before they were physically appli

On Saturday, June 23, 1962, our family visited York, a birthday treat for my younger brother and I, whose birthdays fell five days later and five days earlier, respectively. For this nine-year-old tra

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

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