The Postal Museum will celebrate 100 years of Mail Rail next year with a new exhibition. Credit: The Postal Museum. The ...

Parts of western and northern Scotland will see rail lines close on Saturday as Storm Boelo causes travel chaos.

A £1 billion investment into 29 new battery-electric trains will “bring faster, more reliable journeys to the North”, Andy Burnham has said. The TransPennine Express fleet will be built at Alstom’s ...

AMERICAN manufactured diesel locos, once used in the USA, are being completely rebuilt in Estonia for use there and also in Ukraine. Estonian state-owned rail freight company Operail inherited the ...

A naming ceremony for Class 47 No. 47 813 took place at Bolton Trinity Street Station on Friday, June 9, 1989. The locomotive, named Bolton Wanderer, was associated with the town of Bolton and its ...

October 1987 saw BR launch a bold new image for its Railfreight business. Thirty years on Ben Jones looks at how the image was applied across the fleet. The fresh face of Railfreight, with a new ...

The Secretary of State for Transport, Heidi Alexander, revealed the design using a specially produced Hornby 1:76 scale model of the Class 800. The event offered the first public look at the new GBR ...

The spirit of Christmas is coming early, and the ELR want to encourage families to get more involved in the famous Santa Special event this year by combining two things that little ones absolutely ...

In the latest of our Lazarus Lines series, Cliff Thomas outlines plans to significantly expand this icon of narrow gauge history. Today’s Lynton & Barnstaple Railway operates over a mile-long section ...

The spirit of Christmas is coming early, and the ELR want to encourage families to get more involved in the famous Santa Special event this year by combining two things that little ones absolutely ...

In the seventh of our series on the writers and artists who influenced the present generation of rail enthusiasts, Robert Humm recalls the life and times of the photographer, film maker, and pioneer ...

In the September 1963 issue of The Railway Magazine, major repairs to Snowdon Mountain Railway locomotive No. 4, Snowdon, were reported following work at the Hunslet Engine Co. Ltd., of Leeds. The ...