Features
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Ten handy gadgets for rail travellers
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Trains are not always convenient, especially across long distances. Here’s a selection of handy gadgets to make those train journeys more manageable.
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From the archive: Restoring an armoured Simplex
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Greensand Railway Museum Trust is restoring a 40hp Armoured Simplex LR2182.
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The Railway Touring Company: A different way to see the world
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The Railway Touring Company offers many different destinations within Europe, including Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria and Germany.
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It was 20 years ago today…
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…So wrote the Beatles as a testament to nostalgia. So it is with FarRail Tours! It’s not that long ago that an airline ticket, a cheap hotel and a hired car satisfied the need for steam. South Africa, China, Zimbabwe, Cuba – all paradise for a dedicated man and his camera. But boy have things…
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What Makes a Great Rail Holiday?
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At Ffestiniog Travel we create escorted tours that combine great rail and steam excursions with general sightseeing trips, quality accommodation and individual transport passes to allow for independent exploration.
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From the archive: Five decades of the Foxfield Railway
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Picture the scene. You are standing in a Staffordshire field beneath an almost cloudless blue sky.
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Fred Dibnah Remembered | ‘Nut Roast’ and the Red Rose Steam Society
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“Fred Dibnah was an icon for the movement, he has certainly left his mark and I, along and with many others, certainly feel the better for having known him.”
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From the archive: Patrick Whitehouse
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In the seventh of our series on the writers and artists who influenced the present generation of rail enthusiasts, Robert Humm recalls the life and times of the photographer, film maker, and pioneer preservationist Patrick Whitehouse. A phenomenon of the golden age of railway enthusiasm – those four decades of the 1950s to 1980s –…
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The big bird that flew too far: Part 2
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It’s 50 years since the prototype diesel Kestrel first graced the British Rail network, but after four years it was sold to Russia.
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From the archive: The big bird that flew too far
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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’!
