Trainspotting Nostalgia. . . . . . . If you were around in August, 1968, you may recall a pop group called ‘Cupid’s Inspiration’ and...

The attraction of locomotives to younger generations inside and outside a museum. . . . . . After a morning in the Search Engine at the...

A locomotive with 95 years of work to her credit. . . . . . . 1857 was a significant year for pioneering locomotives now in the National...

How some historic locomotives escaped scrapping while others survived as replicas alongside the originals. . . . . . . . . In January...

Recovering and reclaiming signalling equipment for heritage railways. . . . . . . Most of us have familiarity with the heritage railway...

Summary: Questions of restoration policy for locomotives, includes a reference to Berlin Technical Museum. . . . . . No doubt readers...

Summary: Heritage branding of locomotives citing SR Q1 class in the National Collection. . . . . . . Recently, I was reading something...

Summary: The value of the disused Great Central route. . . . . . . Last week’s post on this site discussed the story of the Great Central...

Sixty years ago, I had the experience of riding the “Tivvy Bumper”. This was the nickname given by locals to the 4¾ mile branch line from...

Railway art featuring some famous artists. . . . . . . Sitting having a coffee and a biscuit at the catering stop in the Great Hall of...

The “Saint” class 4-6-0 passenger locomotives on the Great Western Railway (GWR) passed forever when the last of the class of 77, number...

125 reasons to grieve. . . . . . . . The last InterCity 125 trains are to be withdrawn from service on the East Midlands Railway next...

Understanding ‘Rocket’ and ‘object centred analysis’. . . . . . . Museum curators sometimes talk about ‘object centred analysis’. In its...

Different railway sounds and their use in museums. . . . . . . . English Electric Type 4 1Co-Co1 D255 is seen approaching Dunchurch with...

The continuing theme of railway pub signs in the Friends’ “Review” magazine reminded me about one example – “North Star”. This picture...

Using smells to interpret railway histories. . . . . . . Readers of the post ‘Polishing the Past’ (25th January 2021) may have noticed in...

From 1845 railways played a huge part in the development and growth of Scarborough as a seaside holiday destination. In the late 1970s to...

Railway signalling is perceived by many as a Cinderella subject but in the early 90's the National Railway Museum in York had a surfeit...

Certainly not on Good Friday 13 April 1990. The first public outing of 46229 Duchess of Hamilton following three years of a major...

The Liverpool & Manchester (L & M) Railway opened the first ‘InterCity’ railway in the world one hundred and ninety years ago in 1830....