Trains & Railways: General Interest

The Great Western Railway at Swindon, with its highly skilled craftsmen, is world-famous. It has been written about and filmed countless times, and...

The 1960s saw the final hurrah of steam on the railways the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line. This meant that a ...

Opened in 1834, the Stanhope & Tyne Railroad Companys line ran from the limestone district of Weardale, via the collieries of north-west Durham...

The Post Office Railway, when it started running in 1927, was the first fully automated driverless railway in the world, a full forty years before ...

Unusually among Welsh narrow-gauge railways, the 2ft 6in gauge Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway was built to benefit agriculture, not mineral...

In many ways this title featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international p...

The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once...

In the 1950s there were still train services to most parts of the country, and steam was everywhere. Many of the locomotive types used in Scotland ...

Less than 50 years ago, trains were routinely hauled by majestic steam-powered locomotives. These magnificent machines still exercise a powerful ho...

During The First World War, the railways of Great Britain were effectively nationalised and put under Government control. Run for the benefit of th...