Author: George Woods

Before the West Coast Route electrification was completed in 1966, the electric locomotive was quite a rare beast on Britains railways, with the ex...

The years 1966 and 1967 saw many steam enthusiasts heading north to photograph and record the last steam-worked trains on the Midland Region of Bri...

English Electric built their first diesel loco in 1936 and, before the company closed in 1968, built thousands of diesel and electric locos that sa...

The railways of Spain and Portugal saw steam locomotives working on the main lines until the late 1970s, although in Spain several mining companies...

The Great Western Railway was always a little different to the rest of the railways, and that was still the position when in 1955 British Railways ...

As in many countries in the 1970s, South Africas railways were making the change over from steam to diesel and electric traction at an ever-increas...

Railway enthusiasts living in London in the 1960s saw steam gradually disappearing from the capitals railways. By 1966, with a few exceptions only ...