Category: Editor’s Intro

VisitEngland – as the national tourist board is called – take note. This year we have witnessed the finest collection of autumn galas on our heritage lines that I can remember, in all shapes and

During my two decades in railway journalism, conflicts between the requirements of rails and the ambitions of cyclepath promoters have often been vexed issues, the latest manifestation being the controversy over the use of the

Much interest has been renewed in railway history by the ground-breaking appearance of Rocket on home territory in the Great Festival of the North. However, there appear to be those in the south of England

The weeks ahead will see several special events and railtours to mark the 50th anniversary of the last steam train run over the main line by BR, the ‘Fifteen Guinea Special’ on August 11, 1968,

Fifty years ago, steam trains disappeared from our national network, apparently never to return. At the time, several people who could were rushing around trying to buy locomotives out of service and save them not

IT is truly heartening in a year when we are commemorating half a century since the end of BR main line steam haulage, to see that mode of traction inching forward to reclaim yet more

At last – a distinctive breath of fresh air! No, I’m not emerging from the depths of a 1950s steam shed, but talking about a legal system which, rightly or wrongly, has for so long