Double vision

With this year’s ‘Railway 200’ celebrations now upon us, DR JOSEPH BRENNAN looks at the remnants from the original 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway that we can still see today

Peter Marriott shares one of his new projects, which aims to capture a tiny slice of this famous route.

Running a heritage railway is not an easy job. Many of our favourite lines were set up by groups of dedicated enthusiasts in the wake of the Beeching cuts of the early 1960s, since going on to become

As we have seen across five articles so far – see related reading from the authors, page 23 – the provision of an engine shed at Thornton Junction facilitated a broad reach of influence and operation