Essential reading for today's rail enthusiast
by
Sam Hewitt
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES Following electrification of the southern half of the West Coast Main Line in the 1960s, subsequent decades […]
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES Forgotten Tracks tour visits rare East Yorkshire lines THE Forgotten Tracks series of charter trains, arranged by […]
Just how nimble are today’s locos and units, and what’s the quickest off the mark? A Virgin ‘Pendolino’ is this […]
British Rail arguably took the first steps towards privatisation in 1982, over a decade before it actually began, when the […]
Thirty five years ago this February, one of British Rail’s most interesting operations came to an end. Steve Morris looks […]
Chiltern Railways is now running services through to the main Oxford station, competing with Great Western Railway for commuters to […]
February 1977 saw the withdrawal of the last Class 52 ‘Westerns’ in BR service. To mark the 40th anniversary of […]
There were those that said we wouldn’t last more than a few issues, but over 20 years after our launch […]
The Engine Shed Society held its 2016 Annual General Meeting at Loram in Derby. Dave Richardson describes the visit. ENTHUSIASTS […]
Lee Davies looks back to the dying days of British Rail to describe life working ‘J’ turn coal trains from […]
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