The Railway 200 exhibition train has now finished its year-long tour. Railway 200 programme manager Emma Roberts tells Owen Hayward about the process of the train’s development from its early concepts through to the finished set. With...
Mike Jones looks at why main line steam clung on the longest around the Lancashire region. THE end of British Railways main line steam came in a far faster timescale than had been predicted in the Modernisation Plan, which expected that steam...
Graeme Pickering asks if the success of the 2025 celebrations can encourage the rail industry to be bolder and more ambitious when it comes to public engagement in the future. A year-long tour by the ‘Inspiration Train’ and more than a...
The late Gordon Pettitt was one of British Rail’s most respected senior managers, with Part 4 of his personal diaries recalling how the early 1980s saw cutbacks but also investment. AFTER my time as divisional commercial manager in...