Wake up the sleeping ‘merchants’

When their working lives were over, a small fleet of Pilot Scheme diesels found life anew as carriage pre ‐heating units. Chris Gilson takes a closer look at these unusual survivors.

Now firmly established as a leading specialist in the maintenance, overhaul and servicing of locomotives and other items of rolling stock for a number of operators, it is sometimes easy to forget that

The late 1830s and the 1840s was a period of intensive railway building, with the network expanding rapidly throughout the country, and a growing ambition was to create a through route from London to

Part two of PAUL BIGLAND’s All-Line Rover trip takes him to South Wales, then to England’s South Coast and onwards towards London, on trains battered by the elements… and teenage passengers