Obsessed with steam

When Joanne Ormesher set off on her regular commute to her finance job in Preston back in September 2011, she came across something unexpected on the platform at Leyland Railway Station. “There was a

Following Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle ’s recent reunion for the first time in 36 years at Didcot, THOMAS BRIGHT concludes the story of how they last came together in Western Australia, and why it has taken nearly four decades to repeat the feat.

GREG MORSE marks the anniversary of a record run between Waterloo and the Dorset resort in July 1985

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

HERITAGE RAILWAY ASSOCIATION CHIEF EXEC STEVE OATES TACKLES STEAM’S BURNING ISSUES

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra