In 2025, the United Kingdom celebrates Railway 200, a massive public awareness campaign marking 200 years of railroading ...
Steam trains
Push-pull diesel trains have not run on the Corfe Castle to Swanage line since 1971. The Spa Valley Railway needs £300,000 to replace a Victorian bridge which has become badly corroded. The Flying ...
September 2025 marks 200 years since the first steam-hauled passenger train ran on a public railway, from Stockton to ...
An iconic steam engine was pictured in Carlisle over the weekend in the first of this year’s growing list of steam excursions ...
while in Great British Railway Journeys he will go to Epping Forest, the Black Country, the Lake District and the Weald.
Michael Portillo will celebrate the 200th anniversary of British railways with a special programme ... marks a momentous anniversary of the first steam-hauled passenger train.