Category: Editor’s Intro

I HAS taken 37 years from the time the early Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway revivalists moved into derelict Toddington station, with the aim of restoring the entire 29-mile route from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham that had been

This year much attention will naturally be focused on the 50th anniversary of the end of British Rail standard gauge steam haulage in August 1968. I remember the time well – looking forward to a

It is now 20 years since I moved sideways from an evening newspaper newsdesk into the world of railway magazine publishing. It was tougher than expected but a quickly very rewarding learning curve, and in

Next August, we will mark a half century since the end of British Railways standard gauge steam haulage. It would be easy to assume that the unswerving public passion for steam locomotives, particularly among the

FOR those of us who remember the earlier days of standard gauge preservation, WR 4-6-0 No. 7029 Clun Castle stood out like a beacon of hope in a steamless world. Those open days at what

As a photographer I find the changing colours of autumn irresistible, when the foliage turns to varying shades of gold, bronze, scarlet and brown, before it’s back to winter and the long dark nights. However,

IT IS always a privilege to witness those legendary pinnacles of preservation. Sadly, I was not present to witness the Ffestiniog Railway working on its Llyn Ystradau deviation, nor the rebuilding of a part-sectioned No.

CONTROVERSY flared earlier this year when the National Railway Museum announced that it was giving the LSWR Adams T3 4-4-0 No. 563 to the Swanage Railway. To many, including myself, giving away part of the

It was always going to be the keynote occasion of the year, but the glorious sunshine in the second week of July made certain of that. The series of main line specials marking the 50th