If there is one principle that has been absolutely clear in railway preservation, it is that nearly anything is possible. Whether it has been facing daunting engineering challenges, restoring locomoti

When ALFRED FISHER took off on a mission to ride the Tollesbury Line in Essex in the early 1950s, he had no idea of the drama to follow…

The life and times of John Farquharson McIntosh, the Chief Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway at St Rollox Works, Glasgow from 1895-1914 has been well documented. Hi

Castlethorpe sits mid-way between London and Birmingham in the Buckinghamshire countryside on the West Coast main line just north of Wolverton. It witnessed the very beginnings of the railway age as t

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

FIRELESS LOCOMOTIVES – PART 2