ArticleFrom little acorns…
The late Gordon Pettitt was one of British Rail’s most respected senior managers, but his railway career had humble beginnings, as revealed in Part 1 of his personal recollections.
The late Gordon Pettitt was one of British Rail’s most respected senior managers, but his railway career had humble beginnings, as revealed in Part 1 of his personal recollections.
Three recent tours featured Lner-designed locos tackling the climb to Shap – which one won and how did they compare with last November’s run by the unique‘8p’no. 71000 Duke of Gloucester? John Heaton FCILT finds out.
To mark the reopening of a second platform at Newquay, and thus at least a doubling of capacity on the Cornish ‘Atlantic Coast Line’, we look back at the fall and rise of the seaside town’s railway terminus.
The Talyllyn Railway led the way in railway preservation, and this year the line celebrates 75 years as a volunteer-led railway, as Ian Drummond describes. ON October 11, 1950 at the Imperial Hotel in Birmingham, about people gathered to...
THE sole-surviving Great Eastern Railway 209 Class 0-40ST celebrated its 150th anniversary at Beamish Open Air Museum over the Easter Weekend. No. 229, which was built in 1876 and returned to steam last September, hauled what was claimed to be...