When I had last spent time in the area in August 1963, most passenger services and just a few longer distance freight trains had started to be diesel-hauled, with local freight trip working still a st

The effects of two years of storage delay the introduction of diesel multiple units in Devon and Cornwall

Heading south, a WD 2-8-0 passes Newburn Junction with loaded coal, circa 1967. The oldest of the two routes in view is coastal, dates back to 1840 and first ran across a wide expanse of water known a

GERALD CORBETT, chief executive of Railtrack from 1997 to 2000, speaks exclusively to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, in conjunction with the Calling All Stations podcast, about his time in the industry which included two major accidents at Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield

It was sometime in the early to mid-1960s when Sanquhar stationmaster Herbert James Wilson said to me “Douglas, come in and see this.” So, what was this? I was about to find out, and ‘this’ proved to

A “farce” and a “scandal” as the wait for Oxford-Milton Keynes passenger trains shows no sign of ending