The Nostalgia Collection expands with this book from Will Adams, exploring from Hendon to St Pancras before electrification.
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Category: Features
The Aln Valley Railway – then and now
Alan Barnes is a regular visitor to the North East. Here, he takes a look at the history of the Aln Valley Railway and its progress in extending one of Britain’s newest heritage lines, a
Read moreBook of the Week: Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022
In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.
Read moreBook of the Week: The Railway Magazine Archive 1930s
The last great age of steam in Britain is revisited in this new collection of superb photographs from the extensive archive of the Railway Magazine.
Read moreIn pictures: Railways during World War II
Here are a selection of World War II advertisements that appeared in The Railway Magazine in 1940.
Read moreBook of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80
The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).
Read moreBook of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80
The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.
Read moreLooking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam
The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…
Read moreThe Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside
The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.
Read moreBook of the Week: Diesel Dawn 5
Increasing affluence and a second-hand car allowed the author a geographical range previously denied to him and with various pals he embarked in the 1970s and 1980s on a number of expeditions.
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