Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always a busyness about the station, I miss it so much," he says of his ...

This weekend's Autumn Steam Weekend at the West Somerset Railway will feature three locomotives that spent much of their ...

What do you get when two groups of train enthusiasts decide to swap engines for the weekend? A very long traffic jam, yes a traffic jam! The green Great Western engine is making history. It is the ...

Passenger train service in Oneonta had ended only a few years earlier, and it had been much longer since anyone had seen a steam locomotive engine running on the rails in our area. That might explain ...

West Somerset Railway’s Autumn Steam Weekend (17–19 Oct) showcases rare fireless locomotive Boots Number 1, historic engines, ...