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EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE

ABOVE: Haymarket-based Class 40 D260 passes Falahill on Borthwick Bank on September 2, 1965, on the Waverley route as its heads south with a delightfully mixed freight for Carlisle. This line would cl

When ALFRED FISHER took off on a mission to ride the Tollesbury Line in Essex in the early 1950s, he had no idea of the drama to follow…

Eyebrows were raised among the steam fraternity when the Watercress Line preserved a ‘Sprinter’ diesel multiple unit. Now the train has arrived at Ropley, MARK PEARCE delves deeper into what the move means for the future of heritage rail motive power.

It may be axiomatic to suppose that after the Nationalisation of the railways in 1948, wherever main line trains ran they did so on British Railways’ tracks, as opposed to the position prior to that w