Alex Bestwick
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Book of the Week: Talyllyn Railway Recollections Part 3
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Our latest book of the week is Talyllyn Railway Recollections Part 3 by Nigel Adams & Bob Cambridge.
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Wedding ceremony performed on train journey from Paddington to Swansea
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A couple who met on a train, commuted by train to date each other and shared their first kiss on a train decided to tie the knot aboard a Great Western Railway train.
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Search for Flying Scotsman’s next custodian begins
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The Science Museum Group has published an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to find Flying Scotsman’s new custodian.
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New app turns train journeys into musical odysseys
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The developers of a new app hope to inspire rail travellers to learn more about Britain’s music scene both past and present.
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Book of the Week: The Fairbourne Railway
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Our latest Book of the Week is the fascinating The Fairbourne Railway by Nigel Adams, available now!
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Major rail line blocked after train hits object
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South Western Railway is unable to run any services between Woking and London Waterloo after a train hit an object on the track in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Machine digging HS2’s longest tunnel breaks through
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The machine digging the 10-mile tunnel under the Chiltern Hills broke through on Tuesday.
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More than 1,000 actions for improvement identified on struggling rail route
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More than 1,000 areas for improvement have been identified on a major rail line plagued by faults.
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PM sets out £4.7bn ‘local transport fund’ plans for ‘redirected’ HS2 funds
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Rishi Sunak has said that funds for the axed HS2 section will be ‘reallocated’ as transport funding to be shared across regional councils as he holds a Cabinet meeting in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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Book of the Week: Flying Scotsman – 100th Anniversary
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By Brian Sharpe & Robin Jones It has now been a century since arguably the most famous steam locomotive in history, No 1472 Flying Scotsman, left the Doncaster Works where it was made. It was the third of a class of steam locomotives that would eventually number 79 engines, and did not originally even carry…
