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British Rail arguably took the first steps towards privatisation in 1982, over a decade before it actually began, when the […]

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Thirty five years ago this February, one of British Rail’s most interesting operations came to an end. Steve Morris looks […]

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Chiltern Railways is now running services through to the main Oxford station, competing with Great Western Railway for commuters to […]

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February 1977 saw the withdrawal of the last Class 52 ‘Westerns’ in BR service. To mark the 40th anniversary of […]

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There were those that said we wouldn’t last more than a few issues, but over 20 years after our launch […]

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The Engine Shed Society held its 2016 Annual General Meeting at Loram in Derby. Dave Richardson describes the visit. ENTHUSIASTS […]

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Lee Davies looks back to the dying days of British Rail to describe life working ‘J’ turn coal trains from […]

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Sixty years ago in 1957, and after nearly a decade of dithering by those in charge, the first of the […]

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FOLLOWING the demise of steam in 1968, railway photography entered something of a ‘dark age’ when many star names had […]

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Christopher Westcott reports on the sole surviving Class 306 unit No. 306017, which is owned by the National Railway Museum […]

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