Rail Tour specialist Ffestiniog Travel will mark its milestone 50th anniversary year in 2024 with a special celebratory tour to Switzerland – the destination of its very first escorted tour in 1974 – complete with the original tour leaders! The company’s founder Alan Heywood established the rail tour company while working as Traffic and Commercial…
Many people associate a train journey with their daily commute to work, very much a ‘grudge purchase’ and hardly a memorable experience. We’re here to show that, on board a private excursion train with like-minded travelling companions, things are very different. There really is a pleasurable side to rail travel and it’s here ready for…
With Heritage Railway magazine, you can keep up to date with essential railway news, days out and lots more! You won’t want to miss issue 314 of Heritage Railway magazine.
First published 100 years ago this year, this article reported on the changes that came about following the grouping of 120 small companies into four big companies – and coined the nickname “The Big Four”!
46115 Scots Guardsman, Cramlington, Northumberland. The tour, operated by West Coast Railway, boarded at York, Durham and Newcastle to Edinburgh for the Christmas markets. Photographs by Henry W. Elliott
HS2 scrapped, ticket office closures, rail strikes and Flying Scotsman’s centenary – it’s been quite the year. Join us as we take a look back over 2023’s biggest stories in the world of British railways.
