This small, two-road engine shed stood just south of Penrith station and saw its significance steeply decline from the mid-1950s onwards, until it shut in 1962.

It may be axiomatic to suppose that after the Nationalisation of the railways in 1948, wherever main line trains ran they did so on British Railways’ tracks, as opposed to the position prior to that w

ABOVE: Haymarket-based Class 40 D260 passes Falahill on Borthwick Bank on September 2, 1965, on the Waverley route as its heads south with a delightfully mixed freight for Carlisle. This line would cl

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

Running along the western side of Southampton Water, the nine-mile Southern Railway branch line from Totton to Fawley has rarely attracted much attention from railway historians, but there is much of

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