Things may appear to have gone quiet in Darlington, but the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (A1SLT) continues to make what it described as “a lot of essential but relatively unspectacular” progress on the construction of new-build Gresley ‘P2’ 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales. The £181,000 order for the Mikado’s

Didcot’s GWR ‘King’ No. 6023 King Edward II will break new ground for the class this autumn when it takes a starring role in the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s (NYMR) September 27-29 Autumn Steam Gala alongside ‘A4’ Union of South Africa. The visit will mark the BR blue Collett 4-6-0’s first

Mark Smithers considers several important examples of narrow gauge and industrial steam locomotives which are not currently in the forefront of public attention. One of the more sobering aspects of the current domestic heritage railway scene is the large number of historic steam locomotives that can for one or more

Nick Pigott meets Humphrey Platts, who began photographing trains just after the Second World War, capturing a fascinating transitional period on the railways. It is rare these days to come across a ‘Big Four’ cameraman whose work has not been published widely in books or magazines. Such a photographer

Nick Pigott meets Humphrey Platts, who began photographing trains just after the Second World War, capturing a fascinating transitional period on the railways. IT IS rare these days to come across a ‘Big Four’ cameraman whose work has not been published widely in books or magazines.

USA: Iowa Northern Railway has awarded Wabtec a contract to provide integrated I-ETMS Positive Train Control, LDRS-V digital video recording and data transfer and analytics capabilities across its entire locomotive fleet by late 2020. The order announced on July 10 is the first such contract won by Wabtec since its

A COMBINATION of fatigue and low blood sugar may have been behind the failure of an Underground train driver to make sure all the doors were closed before he left a station.The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has also said poor training could have been another factor. The incident happened on 1

BULGARIA: National operator BDZ needs to focus on service quality, sustainability and long-term performance in order to ‘convince the public that it is developing in an upward trend’ and remain the state’s main passenger service provider when the market is liberalised in 2024, Minister of Transport, Information Technology & Communications,

No progress in Underground pay talksPAY talks between London Underground and the RMT have broken up after their eighth day, but the RMT said there had been no ‘meaningful offer’. The union, which has 10,000 members on the Underground, is now stepping up its preparations for a strike ballot. Shuttle traffic

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has asked the Federal Administrative Court to suspend its appeal lodged in July 2018 against the decision by the Federal Office of Transport to allocate two routes in the national long-distance passenger service concession to BLS. The Bern – Biel and Bern – Burgdorf – Olten routes