In the July 1979 issue of The Railway Magazine, O. S. Nock described an attempt by Western Region to set a world record for start-to-stop average speed by t ...

Railway workers are to stage two 24-hour strikes in a dispute over driver-only operation. Michael R Photography / Shutterstock.com. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport uni ...

In the October 1989 issue of The Railway Magazine, Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust Chairman Michael A. Cobley outlined the progress being made with No. 1264. O ...

From the September 1989 issue of The Railway Magazine, Peter Kelly considered the growing graffiti problem on the railway and ...

In the October 1989 issue of The Railway Magazine, all 30 new class 90 Intercity electric locomotives were reported as having been temporarily withdrawn by ...

The East Lancashire Railway has won a Roch Valley Radio Community Hero Award in recognition of the work of its volunteers.

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 ...

Rail passengers will now be able to travel with another company to finish their journey free of charge when their original train has been cancelled, the Government has announced. From Sunday, ...

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 ...

In September 1963, The Railway Magazine took a detailed look at Healey Mills, the new marshalling yard four miles west of Wakefield on the Calder Valley route to Manchester. The article described a ...

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 ...