By Geoff Courtney A DRAMATIC scene of LMS Princess Coronation Pacific No. 46235 City of Birmingham storming through the night under a leaden sky was the public’s overwhelming favourite at the Guild of Railway Artists’

By Brian Sharpe Bad luck for Britain’s two best-known steam engines on East Coast Main Line railtours has resulted in an unexpected bonus for the Nene Valley Railway, with both engines finding themselves together on

Was it really five years ago that a forlorn-looking Bahamas appeared on a low loader in the car park of Heritage Railway publisher Mortons at Horncastle, en route from Ingrow on the Keighley & Worth

Words and pictures by Brian Sharpe NORFOLK has always been known as fertile ground for discovering grounded pre-Grouping wooden coach bodies, with many examples still surviving on farms and in a variety of other locations.

By Geoff Courtney ONE of the brass cabside numberplates from a unique GWR express locomotive that was described by a leading railway engineer and journalist as one of the few failures to emerge from Swindon

THE Welshpool & Llanfair Railway has loaned its diminutive Andrew Barclay 0-4-0T No. 2207 of 1946 Dougal to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation (Taisugar) for six months – and the locomotive may return to action, subject

By Paul Appleton The small team of volunteers behind the project to refurbish the platform at the Severn Valley Railway’s forgotten station – Eardington Halt – were in buoyant mood during the September 20-23 autumn

IT is now 70 years since newly-created British Railways staged the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges that saw classic designs from the ‘Big Four’ companies transferred to trials on other successor regions. Officially, the aim was to

By Jonathan Webb LOCOMOTIVE Services Limited has commenced steam crew training on the Severn Valley Railway. The TOC currently makes great use of drivers from other operators, such as DB Cargo, which are hired in

By Robin Jones and Cedric Johns BRITAIN’S newest Train Operating Company, Vintage Trains Limited, has run its first official train – and it wasn’t steam or heritage stock. Just nine days after the TOC’s public