Heritage

A proposal to install a public access route across Bennerley Viaduct in the East Midlands is currently being considered by planning authorities.

Proposals for a “radical yet respectful” transformation to Birmingham Moor Street station have been released. The existing station building, which...

Liverpool Lime Street station has had a thorough overhaul recently, with new platforms, signalling and track. But its heritage has not been forgotten as...

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In August 1968, the last scheduled British Railways steam train ran on the British railway network. By then, the heritage movement had already started,...

In West Yorkshire, the campaign to reopen a disused railway tunnel as part of an ambitious cycle network is approaching a critical point with...

It is not only the Swiss main line railways that are benefitting from tunnel investment. The Rhätische Bahn (or Rhaetian Railway) is an extensive...

Lost within the undulations of Britain’s varied landscape are upwards of 600 railway tunnels which were stripped of their operational status as circumstances changed....

In South Wales, the campaign to reopen a disused railway tunnel as a foot and cycle path has passed a crucial milestone with the...

The preserved Swanage Railway in Dorset featured in issue 86 (December 2011), which described the control and communications systems and featured the three signalboxes...

Tunnels do little to enhance the passenger experience, turning off the daylight and mobile phone signals. For some, this seemingly results in personal crisis....

It is always surprising to see the level of ingenuity that exists on heritage railways to overcome constraints in both operating and engineering practice....

It symbolised the coming of the electric age: ‘new’ Euston - a monument to the 1960s. Out went the station’s Doric propylaeum and glorious...

One of York’s most anonymous buildings houses the railway’s engineering memory - an archive of around nine million records dating back to the 17th...

Steam locomotives are inefficient and costly to operate, hence British Railways replaced them with diesel and electric traction nearly fifty years ago. Today, however, steam-hauled...

A new footpath has been officially opened across Torksey Viaduct, bringing function to a structure that has been quietly rusting since the railway it...