Despite having their work cut out clearing deep snowdrifts from Scotland’s railways during the heavy January snowfalls, some of the engineers and train crews managed to take some stunning photos - and here are a few of them…

T HE TALYLLYN Railway’s 75th anniversary year has ...

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.

I DON’T know if it’s worse attempting to drive up an icy hill or drive down one. I certainly won’t forget that horrible feeling of helplessness many winters ago, driving down the Reedie Hill road into

GARY ESSEX looks at the railways that have successfully diversified their income streams, from contract work for main line operators to reinventing themselves as invaluable training sites.

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