Dressing the part

OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries

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

The second railway age…

An envelope of old pictures has turned Chris Leigh ’s thoughts to narrow gauge and how times have changed where ready-to-run narrow gauge is concerned.

This month’s 10 pictures comes from well-known and renowned West Country photographer Bernard Mills, who has been taking pictures for several decades now. Railways were in his blood from infancy, and

Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev