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In the 1960s, Britain tried to leap into the future with the Advanced Passenger Train - a radical tilting high-speed train ...
Volunteers are working to bring a 1960s push-pull diesel train back to a branch line after an absence of more than half a century. The trains, once a common sight, have not run on the Corfe Castle ...
The chronic shortage of rolling stock on the UK rail network has pushed one operator to bring back British Rail diesel locomotives that are more than 50 years old, hauling “slam-door ...
His father Tom had joined the LMS Railway as a junior porter soon after he left school on his 15th birthday in 1924 at Whitchurch. Tom served on the railway for 50 years, largely in Shropshire ...
A British rail train in York station. Ross Clark says no-one should forget that before this, BR had carried out the Beeching cuts – when more than 3,000 miles of railway were closed in the 1960s ...
These charming photographs reveal the golden age of the British holiday steam train, which was the transport of choice for Victorian people travelling en masse to seaside resorts.
Forget planes and cars – these best luxury sleeper trains in the world 2025 capture the romance of travel with their ...
Built new in 2008 by The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, Tornado is the first mainline steam locomotive constructed in the UK ...
Now a group of volunteers are restoring a TC carriage to complete a three-carriage British Rail train. It is hoped the first services will run on the Swanage Railway heritage line in early 2026.
Memories of a 1960s train journey never to be repeated It's all aboard the 5.30 to Bridgnorth as we join Les Price and his dad Tom for a trip back in time to enjoy a memorable but unrepeatable ...
Volunteers are working to bring a 1960s push-pull diesel train back to a branch line after an absence of more than half a century. The trains, once a common sight, have not run on the Corfe Castle ...