This substantial shed served the considerable freight needs of the Cumbrian port, with two heritage preservation attempts failing after its 1968 closure.

When I had last spent time in the area in August 1963, most passenger services and just a few longer distance freight trains had started to be diesel-hauled, with local freight trip working still a st

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

While several locomotives with Somerset & Dorset links have survived into preservation, two of the line’s biggest survivors, ‘7Fs’ Nos. 53808 and 53809 will be missing this anniversary due to overhauls.

Railway scrapyards have held a, some may argue, morbid fascination with rail enthusiasts for decades. They are the Death Row of the railways, where the chances are if a loco goes in, it isn’t coming o

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