British rail – a future-proof british railways?

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

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2005 takes us to 1960… and the seaside

20213 and 20165 run alongside the river Forth via a loaded MGR from Kincardine Power Station to Longannet Power Station on February 25, 1991. This was a short term and short distance (about two miles)

Step back to 1965! That is your invite for this themed issue, which is something different for Steam Days, but still with a varied mix of features – Somerset & Dorset, the ‘Notts & Lincs Rail Tour,’ t

The second railway age…

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