Category: Editor’s Intro

“It will never happen in my lifetime.” Now where have I heard that sentence before, in the lifetime of this magazine? The rebuilding of the Welsh Highland Railway… the completion of A1 Pacific No. 60163

FEBRUARY’S main line charter debut of BR Standard 2-6-0 No. 76084 cannot be but heartily welcomed, along with the John Coiley award that its owning group has been presented with by the Heritage Railway Association.

The royal seal of approval given by HRH The Prince of Wales on January 25, was no less than the 10 years of hard graft by the volunteers of the Mountsorrel Railway deserved. Nearly 12

There was a time, not so long ago, when the British public woke up to be told there would no longer be Woolworths in the High Street. Now the heritage sector has been told that

About three decades ago, there was a muddy field near the River Dart where the GWR Ashburton branch joined the main line north of Totnes station. Today, that field not only has a station of

Impressed with the six shortlisted designs for the planned new £18 million station at the Great Central Railway’s Leicester North terminus that I was shown on the preview day, I am waiting in earnest for

Our cover picture depicts a BR Standard 4MT tank back at Midsomer Norton and is a classic and quite wonderful example of the heritage movement thumbing its nose at the inevitable march of time, for

August 10 saw the heritage railway sector expand its ‘territory’ still further, with the running of the first North Norfolk Railway dining train from Sheringham over Network Rail’s Bittern Line to Cromer. If you take