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.

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 £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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The East Lancashire Railway has teamed up with foster care and special needs provider Family Care to provide a British Sign Language interpreter for children on selected Santa Special trains later ...

Apart from the underground trains on the Waterloo and City line, the Southern Region of British Railways has, until now, exclusively used hinged doors on its suburban trains; with the advent of 43 ...

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 ...