There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the ... will replace the diesel engine in a redundant British Rail class 60 freight locomotive.

Horse Box, British Railways, No S96369, designed at Eastleigh, built at Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works, 1957, withdrawn at Micheldever, 1971. [Built to diagram BR 751, construction span 1957-1958, ...

Some described the Scotrail franchise as ‘a dripping roast’, extremely attractive to eager and greedy profit-making operators and yearned for the old days of British Rail, over which the passage of ...

The West Somerset Railway has its ongoing planning in place for one of its major events during the year of Railway200 festivities.

Memories are short. The reason why the railways were privatised was not for ideology but because the network was failing under the old British Rail. It was underfunded because it was a constant ...

The sale of train tickets is set for a major overhaul after the government revealed a new plan as part of the Great British ...

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.

The new Pamban Bridge, India’s first vertical lift railway sea bridge, connects Rameswaram Island to the mainland. With an estimated lifespan of 38 to 58 years, it introduces modern engineering but ...