The long and winding road

Looking at railways in detail

The town of Merthyr Tydfil is situated on the northern edge of the South Wales coalfield in a basin of the Taff valley some 25 miles from Cardiff; it was once so famous for its iron and steel industry

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone! British Rail’s High Speed Train fleet revolutionised and transformed inter-city travel when it was first introduced into service on BR’s Western Region i

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