In August 1976, rail passengers travelling British Rail's Western Region experienced a new way to travel to the West Country, with the introduction of the High-Speed Train. By the end of the year, p...
The romance of the railways in the United Kingdom was arguably at its best when hundreds of minor railway lines traversed the countryside. In those days the locomotive drivers would have unscheduled s...
This set features a locomotive and rolling stock matched to represent the sort of rail operations as could be seen towards the end of BRs custody of the UK rail system in the 1990s. The Class 20 was o...
6201 'Princess Margaret Rose' entered service
in 1935, named after the then five-year-old daughter of Albert, Duke of
York (later King George VI), Princess Margaret Rose,...
Between 2016 and 2017, ROG purchased a total of five Class 47
locomotives from Riviera Trains and Direct Rail Services to complement
their Class 37s. The first Class 47 obtained was No. 47812 whic...
On the 25th of August 2020 Avanti West Coast unveiled a new livery for
one of its train-sets. Billed as the biggest Pride flag the UK has seen
on the side of a train, the new livery wraps the full...
Power Car 43004 entered service in September 1976 and was one of the
prototypes for the Brush MTU engine upgrade, this occurring between
September 2004 and June 2005. As a result, it did not recei...
Following a period of unprofitable operations, the InterCity East
Coast franchise and associated HST units passed from NXEC to East Coast,
an operator owned by the Department for Transport. From t...
After its 1993 withdrawal from Derby Works, D3771 was purchased and
became a permanent resident of the Great Western Society. In 2010 the
locomotive was given plain green livery, then repainted ag...
Having been rebuilt with a conventional boiler and A4 style streamlining
in 1937, the W1 ‘Hush-Hush’ continued to serve with LNER and later
British Railways. Under BR the locomotive was renumbered...
At the end of January 1935, a Kychap double blastpipe and chimney was
fitted to the W1, which eventually required the fitting of a smoke
lifting cowl for better smoke clearance. On August 21, 1935...
257 Squadron' was completed at Brighton Works in 1948 as one of the
first of its Class produced under BR, and allocated to Dover Marine Shed
to work the Continental Boat Trains to London. Perhaps ...
The British Railways Standard 9F Class was a 2-10-0 steam locomotive,
the last of the standardised BR designs. The Robert Riddles design was
intended as a long distance heavy express freight locom...
Stanier’s Turbomotive, often referred to as ‘The Turbo’ was an
experimental non-condensing steam turbine locomotive inspired by similar
Swedish Ljungström locomotives. No. 6202 was built as the th...
Continuing as a distinct and uniquely designed steam turbine locomotive,
the ‘Princess Royal’ Class Turbomotive returned to the main line in
1947, showcasing the new emblem of British Rail and a s...