he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

The switch to TOPS numbers in the early 1970s was, overall, mostly straightforward, but there were a few locos that were allocated numbers – and changes affected them before they were physically appli

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

On Saturday, June 23, 1962, our family visited York, a birthday treat for my younger brother and I, whose birthdays fell five days later and five days earlier, respectively. For this nine-year-old tra

D2094 – Milton of Crathes: One of the trio of Class 03s based at the Royal Deeside Railway, D2094, has recently received attention. While its bodywork is now tatty, its early 2000s paint job has evolv

20213 and 20165 run alongside the river Forth via a loaded MGR from Kincardine Power Station to Longannet Power Station on February 25, 1991. This was a short term and short distance (about two miles)