Boasting a 99-mile network of 3ft gauge lines, Jim McBride offers an overview of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway from its origins, through partition and as a rail and road operation, the company’s diversification ensuring a 161...
Thirty miles north of York on the East Coast main line but also by 1850 on the Ripon-Stockton section of the Leeds Northern Railway and with a route west towards Wensleydale, this rail centre was further enhanced when the latter line was...
The writings of Chris Gordon Watford tell of his fondness for the line through Paignton to Churston and Kingswear, and how time spent here would inspire his later choice for a honeymoon location. Reached from London Paddington by...
Complementing previous Britannia coverage, Roger Smith and Andrew Kennedy present details of three less well known engines called ‘Britannia,’ as well as offering some rare and newly located photographs of two other...
