Trains & Railways: General Interest

Thirteen years elapsed between the publication of British Railways Modernisation Plan and the end of steam services on the national network. In thi...

Tom Greaves gives his own account of the chaotic introduction of main line diesel locomotives during the late 1950s which was conducted primarily o...

On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the worlds longest bridge on a black, fie...

Public transport in London in the 1980s presented a very different face to today. London Regional Transport still oversaw much of the public transp...

During the railway mania of the nineteenth century many places gained more than one station, and not just in the big cities. Many small settlements...

Fifty years ago, main line steam in Britain ceased to exist, the last official date being 11 August 1968. At the time, British Railways plan was th...

The British Rail Class 142 Pacer was an attempt to produce a cost effective train to replace the worn-out and elderly first generation BR Diesel Mu...