Image source, G A Richardson, Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always ...

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news were there to capture it. Compiled here is never ...

Visitors are invited to step back in time to the 1960s at the Great Central Railway next weekend. The Leicestershire attraction is holding a 'Railways at Work Gala', complete with the sounds, sights ...

They were places much revered, providing an easy to cross the country and a historic record of the UK's transport network. When Dr Richard Beeching produced a report in the 1960s suggesting vast ...

A MUSEUM in the centre of Wisbech, a Georgian town of 30,000 souls in East Anglia, proudly displays the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations”. Those were days in which Wisbech ...

Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines Here you have a chance to relive some of the great trains of ...

The map, titled ‘Diagram of the Plan for the New Railway Junction and Ring Railway in Bengaluru,’ covered key areas of the city. A vintage map from 1960s showing the proposed Bengaluru Circular ...

An atmospheric steam and diesel ‘Winter Warm Up’ weekend is to be the first special event in the Swanage Railway’s special ...

Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always a busyness about the station, I miss it so much," he says of his ...