Author: Martin Loader

Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835 and completed just six years later, the Great Western Railway was a stupendous technical achievement. Ext...

The North & West Route, which, in recent years, has become known as the Welsh Marches Line, extends from Newport to Chester. Historically, this...

Approved in May 1833 at the same time as the London & Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction Railway was intended to act as a link between the ...

The South Wales Railway was promoted in the 1840s with the aim of completing a rail link between England, Wales and Ireland. As such, the proposed ...

Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway com...

The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from wh...

Authorised on 8 May 1833, the London & Birmingham Railway was one of Britains first great trunk lines. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (1803-18...

As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were plannin...

The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth. Aft...

LEEDS to CARLISLE The line from Leeds to Carlisle furnished the Midland Railway with an independent route to Scotland, in opposition to the rival ...