Branch line! Victorian Great Western Railway train carriage left to rot under trees in field for nearly 100 years goes up for auction for £10,000 The Great Western Railway First Class carriage has now gone up for auction with Charterhouse for £100,000 Carriage was towed behind a family’s traction engine for use as their living quarters in the … Read more
The latest episode of Channel 5’s documentary series The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys, has the inside track on several of the island’s most eye-catching train trips.
A 101-year-old veteran who was a Japanese prisoner of war and now volunteers with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his birthday. Former Bombardier Len Gibson lived through the horrors of the Burma Death Railway and years as a prisoner of war, but … Read more
A 101-year-old veteran who was a Japanese prisoner of war and now volunteers with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his birthday. Former Bombardier Len Gibson lived through the horrors of the Burma Death Railway and years as a prisoner of war, but … Read more
An MP has called for a thorough investigation after part of a train station caved in and collapsed – narrowly missing passengers waiting on a platform. ‘Miraculously’ no one was injured in the incident, which took place at Northwich Station in Cheshire late this morning. But commuters were left facing severe delays after a huge pile … Read more
An MP has called for a thorough investigation after part of a train station caved in and collapsed – narrowly missing passengers waiting on a platform. ‘Miraculously’ no one was injured in the incident, which took place at Northwich Station in Cheshire late this morning. But commuters were left facing severe delays after a huge pile … Read more
Call The Midwife’s Jenny Agutter set to reprise her role in The Railway Children sequel – 50 years after original as Sheridan Smith and Tom Courtenay join the new cast By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 15:36 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 15:36 BST, 6 May 2021 Call The Midwife star Jenny Agutter is … Read more
Railway Children is ‘reimagined’ for Generation Woke: Characters grapple with mental anguish in ‘modern’ makeover by Tracey Beaker author The new book by author Dame Jacqueline Wilson will be published in September It is a retelling of Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children, first published in 1906 Dame Jacqueline has written the book from the youngest child’s … Read more
Railway Children is ‘reimagined’ for Generation Woke: Characters grapple with mental anguish in ‘modern’ makeover by Tracey Beaker author The new book by author Dame Jacqueline Wilson will be published in September It is a retelling of Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children, first published in 1906 Dame Jacqueline has written the book from the youngest child’s … Read more
The golden age of steam lives on – in a bucolic corner of the Suffolk countryside. There you can stay aboard a beautifully restored 19th-century railway carriage that has been fitted out with bunk beds, a double bed, a living room with a wood-burning stove and a bathroom with a roll-top bath. The Victorian carriage … Read more