The princetown branch – an appreciation

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one

A truly wonderful picture of 47593 Galloway Princess working 1Z34, the 12.32 Fort William-Crewe ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ support train, at Lochan a’Chlaidheimh, just north of Rannoch, on June 28. Out o

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

Long-serving Ffestiniog Railway volunteer and current FR Magazine editor JOHN DOBSON recalls his early encounters with the railway back in the 1950s.

GREG MORSE marks the anniversary of a record run between Waterloo and the Dorset resort in July 1985

This issue’s 10 Pictures comes from railfreight follower and photographer Paul Shannon. Having spent his early childhood in Gloucestershire, Paul lived on the outskirts of Manchester from 1963 until 1