In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.
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Category: Features
Summer 2022 at the MiddyÂ
Suffolk’s only standard gauge preserved railway and winners of 2021 Heritage Railway Association’s Restoration Award, the ‘Middy’ will operate steam trains on summer Sundays and Bank Holidays until 4th September.
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Book of the Week: The Rise and Fall of King Coal
This week’s Book of the Week tells the fascinating story of the UK’s ‘black diamonds’ from their origins to their role as the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution: The Rise and Fall of King Coal…
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Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80
The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).
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A Day in the Life of York ROC
To get an inside view of how the modern railway operates, Rail Express was given exclusive all areas access at Network Rail’s Rail Operating Centre (ROC) at York for a full 12-hour day shift on November 16.
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Book of the Week:Â The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80
The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.
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Unboxing ‘Flash’ the Local Express Train from Hornby
Today we’re unboxing a recent model train from Hornby called ‘Flash’ the local express train. It’s a remote-controlled battery train set targeted at the younger
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The World of Railwayana
The term ‘railwayana’ can cover all manner of rail-related memorabilia, from Victorian carriage prints, right up to nameplates recently removed from recently withdrawn HST power
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Looking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam
The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…
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Book of the Week: Railway Magazine – Archive Series 1930’s
The last great age of steam in Britain is revisited in this new collection of superb photographs from the extensive archive of the Railway Magazine.
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