As the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive in the world at the time, Kestrel promised a motive power revolution… but it turned out to be ‘too good for its own good’!
Read moreFrom the archive: The big bird that flew too far
Category: Features
Retaining heritage skills for the future
In our latest visit to the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), The Railway Magazine meets its youngest apprentice.
Read moreWe regret the delay to your train…
For every late train there is a reason.
Read moreA railway in BARBADOS AGAIN
The tiny independent nation of Barbados has an operating railway once more after a gap of more than 80 years. Keith Fender and Glen Beadon look at the Caribbean island’s troubled railway history and the
Read more1960s Railtours with a difference
Keith Farr takes a nostalgic look at some notable steam rail tours from the 1960s
Read moreFleet Focus: Britain’s new trains
Exciting times are ahead as the first trains of two new fleets entered service during April and May.
Read moreMade of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire
Ben Jones visits one of the country’s most important locations – Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry in Derbyshire.
Read moreThe South Tynedale Railway
It may well be England’s highest narrow gauge railway, and has deep-seated aspirations to return to Haltwhistle.
Read moreRon Buckley, Britain’s oldest railway photographer
Chris Milner met centenarian Ron Buckley, a railway photographer with a fascinating past, who took his first railway picture in the 1930s, but also spent more than 40 years employed by both the LMS and BR.
Read moreThe coaling plant story: Towers of Strength
The demolition of Immingham’s mechanical coaling plant last year has left Britain with just one example of these huge ferro-concrete monoliths.
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