The ‘pacific’ beater

PHILIP HAIGH works his way through a new book on the history of railway electrification in Britain, and considers how history could be repeating itself

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

GREG MORSE marks the anniversary of a record run between Waterloo and the Dorset resort in July 1985

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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

Shock as Deltic runs without any headbords… in public! The Deltic Preservation Society has launched an investigation after one of its locos was seen hauling a train without a single headboard. The inc