the rail thing

Imagine you were standing at Templecombe station in 1952, on a summer Saturday. If I'd told you then that the busy line to Bath and B...

This is a rare shot showing the electrified industrial railway at Kearsley near Manchester, back in 1974. I'm not sure about the cu...

Something a little different today. These are press agency shots of the LMS prototype main line diesel no D10000 in the suburbs of n...

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