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 ...

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 ...

Joe Campbell travels a section of the new freight rail service between Southampton and Doncaster as he takes a deep dive into the future of England's railways. The opening of the world's first railway ...

With 350,000 titles, Barter Books, housed in a Victorian railway station in Alnwick, Northumberland, is a literary pilgrimage ...

John Day, one of the original members and former chairman of the Ipswich Transport Society, has died, aged 79.

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Mary Staunton's experience was shared by so many other women who felt shut out of public life during the five decades the ...

Today in History for Oct. 11: In 1521, Pope Leo X gave Henry VIII of England the title "Fidei Defensor," or Defender of the Faith. Thirteen years later, Henry severed all ties with Rome to establish ...

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The Locomotion No 1 crossed Skerne Bridge on the second day of its journey [BBC] Crowds turned out to watch a replica of a historic steam ... oldest railway bridge still in use for trains in the world ...