Author: Mark Pike

In the early 1990s, the Waterloo to Exeter route was suffering many delays and problems due to the increasingly unreliable diesel locos being used ...

Class 47s have now been part of the UK railway system for over 60 years. They have been used on every type of train over the years, including front...

Containing many previously unpublished photographs, particularly of Class 50s in operation in the south of England and west of Basingstoke and Read...

In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 locomotives to replace a variety of freight lo...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and evermore unreliable....

For almost 50 years, High Speed Trains (HSTs) have been the mainstay for express services for many operators in the UK. While they were used extens...

The Class 60 was the last truly British-built diesel locomotive design. From 1990, the locomotive was gradually delivered, with 100 in total going ...