The hawkhurst branch – an appreciation

PART TWO

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

Running a rail timetable relies on the right number of locos, coaches, and staff being fit and in the right place. But on a network the size and complexity of British Rail, sometimes – in fact, often

The Clarence Railway wharves on the edge of the River Tees at Port Clarence were established in the 1830s and were tidal and subject to the navigational vagaries of the Tees estuary. On February 4, 18

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

As the extension to the Kent & East Sussex Railway and station at Robertsbridge gathers pace, the Rother Valley Railway has launched an appeal to complete the extended line’s new terminus.