“we need to get more people using public transport”

OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries

As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway, Emily Scaife explores the enduring bond between trains, rail lines and our great British countryside

THE MUCH-MISSED Somerset & Joint Dorset Railway, between Bath and Bournemouth, might have closed on March 7, 1966, but a part of it is being revived at Shillingstone station, writes John Stretton. The

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ANDY COMFORT discovers how volunteers are working with a train operator to promote and improve a Yorkshire line

Our next extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2005 takes us to 1960… and the seaside