Long service

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

Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL ...

12099 – Kidderminster: The Class 11 was taken out of service in 2019 for overhaul. Since then it has received a thorough internal and external makeover from bufferbeam to bufferbeam by the dedicated t

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

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

Long-serving Ffestiniog Railway volunteer and current FR Magazine editor JOHN DOBSON recalls his early encounters with the railway back in the 1950s.