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STILL STEAMING ON
With the demise of Chinese industrial steam in January 2
Just a few days before the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) was due to run its April 19 track bashing tour around Ayrshire, it was advised by Network Rail that it couldn’t cover the Killoc
1 NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS RAILWAY Covering 24 undulating miles between the North Sea resort of Whitby and the town of Pickering, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway operates regular rides pulled by classi
Regular steam on British Railways ended in August 1968. However, steam survived well into the 1970s on another BR on the other side of the world. Bangladesh Railways were very rarely visited by enthusiasts, but former BR traction inspector – the late Tom Greaves – was seconded there in the mid-1970s to support the fledgling country’s badly run-down railways.
All aboard as JD Savage takes the fast track through 200 years of train travel.
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To mark the bicentenary of the first public passenger steam railway, Tom Chesshyre picks his top British train trips
