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The Kent coastal town of Greatstone-on-Sea, near New Romney, is spelt like that – with hyphens. Unless you are the Southern Railway, in which case there are no hyphens. Unless it’s on the tickets. Then there are. The recent sale of a SR target sign for the station, which went for £2400 at an auction…

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A STATION totem sign that was an unknown survivor will be going under the hammer at a Transport Auctions of London sale at Croydon on February 17. It is from Crouch Hill, a north London station that was opened in July 1868 by the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway and is now on the capital’s…

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I never met him or even knew him, but I was saddened to learn of the death of John Hendley, for he was a man from a similar mould as myself – a dedicated Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter, keen on most sports, a railway enthusiast, and a railwayana collector. John, known as ‘Foz’, passed away on…

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A shedful of railway memories went under the hammer at the sale of a collection amassed by a career railwayman during his five decades of service on the Ipswich-Lowestoft line. Peter Punchard joined BR in 1954 as a porter at Brampton, became a signalman in 1961 based at nearby Halesworth, and carried out various other…

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WEST Coast Railways rescued a ScotRail DMU that was derailed by a landslip on the West Highland Line. More than 1000 tonnes of stone and mud slid onto the track after the mountainside above the railway gave way due to melting snow overnight on Sunday and Monday, January 21 and 22. Two-car Class 156 Unit…

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By Robin Jones and Cedric Johns Having failed to make any progress following West Coast Railways’ advice that it would not operate any trains on its behalf after the end of 2017, Vintage Trains has announced that it will not be promoting any railtours in the first half of 2018. In a news release that…

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