Essential reading for today's rail enthusiast
by
Sam Hewitt
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Today’s few remaining Class 08/09 shunters are confined to yards and depots, but the once thousand-strong fleet was also entrusted […]
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The final regular workings of London Underground ‘D’ Stock should take place as this issue comes out. Christopher Westcott looks […]
It wasn’t just football fans that looked forward to weekends – summer Saturdays used to bring rail enthusiasts out in […]
FROM OUR ARCHIVES Following electrification of the southern half of the West Coast Main Line in the 1960s, subsequent decades […]
FROM OUR ARCHIVES Forgotten Tracks tour visits rare East Yorkshire lines THE Forgotten Tracks series of charter trains, arranged by […]
Just how nimble are today’s locos and units, and what’s the quickest off the mark? A Virgin ‘Pendolino’ is this […]
British Rail arguably took the first steps towards privatisation in 1982, over a decade before it actually began, when the […]
Thirty five years ago this February, one of British Rail’s most interesting operations came to an end. Steve Morris looks […]
Chiltern Railways is now running services through to the main Oxford station, competing with Great Western Railway for commuters to […]
February 1977 saw the withdrawal of the last Class 52 ‘Westerns’ in BR service. To mark the 40th anniversary of […]
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