Running from Andoversford Junction to Andover Junction, and thus linking Cheltenham with Southampton, as well as Swindon from Rushey Platt Junction and also the Berks & Hants around Savernake, such connections led to a flurry of visits by...
The choice of racehorse names for some of the fastest locomotives of the East Coast main line is more than appropriate – Gresley A1s and A3s, and Thompson A2/3s – but with names plucked from across the 1857 to 1947 period and with the theme...
Five years on from the Modernisation Plan of 1955, Philip Atkins reveals how 1960 saw established long-term steam plans reviewed and the demise of steam on British Railways foreshortened by perhaps as much as 22 years. Five years on from the...
Well aware of diminishing steam passenger work in much of Scotland, August 1961 saw Ian Turnbull set out from Surbiton with two objectives – to enjoy non-stop Anglo-Scottish steam on The Elizabethan, and to visit as many Scottish steam sheds...
