THE new year had just begun when Nos. 70803 and 70805 were unloaded from the Atlantic Concert at Seaforth Docks, Merseyside, on January 4, 2014,

REGARDING the Scottish Met-Camm Pullman picture (Express Mailbag, August issue), I think I can identity it – or at least narrow it down, because three

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THE Government has issued an invitation to tender to the five bidders hoping to build the initial fleet of trains for HS2. The winner will

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THE upheaval caused by the extent of timetable changes in May, which even now have still not been fully implemented by Northern and the Govia

THE competition to produce the definitive re-creation of the BR/Sulzer Type 2s in ‘OO’ gauge took a further twist at the beginning of July, with