Ffestiniog to design new boiler for darjeeling 19b

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

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

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

An envelope of old pictures has turned Chris Leigh ’s thoughts to narrow gauge and how times have changed where ready-to-run narrow gauge is concerned.

JUNE SAW a number of diesel galas staged at some of the established heritage lines, with a number of visiting locomotives providing enticing line-ups for modern traction followers. The West Somerset R

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.