The famous ‘Reshaping of British Railways’ by Dr Richard Beeching, cut thousands of branch lines and stations from the rail network forever ...

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 ...

There is fresh hope for a historic railway line in the highlands, which was closed in the 1960s and has starred as a filming location for several ...