Wortley Junction, west of Leeds, was a busy part of the network and had a complex layout. In an unorthodox Practice & Performance, John Heaton
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Tag: Midland Railway
New canopy for Dore and Totley after long campaign
A NEW canopy is now in use at the station in the south-west suburbs of Sheffield. This follows a long campaign by the Friends of
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Country Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton
By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith MIDDLETON’S ever-expanding library of regional railway histories has found its way to the much-loved – and much-missed – Midland
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Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled
Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.
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Barrow Hill completes purchase of Midland ‘Half Cab’ No. 41708
FORMER Midland Railway ‘1F’ 0-6-0T No. 41708 will be returned to full working order for the first time since 2003 following its acquisition by the Barrow
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Historic stations: Bath Green Park Some myths dispelled!
In the June 1980 issue of The Railway Magazine, Mike Arlett recalled the history of The Midland Station at Bath (renamed by BR as Bath
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Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s
Steam locomotives grew larger, more powerful and faster during the 1860s. Brian Sharpe outlines how the jobs of the locomotive superintendents of the major railway
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Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties
In issue 249, I enjoyed Gavin Morrison’s retro look at Holbeck shed’s last years of service in the 1960s. My memories of this atmospheric Midland
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Leicestershire’s Lost Railways
By Neil Burgess A NUMBER of rail routes and stations throughout Leicestershire were lost to the ‘Beeching Axe’, but some of the more rural lines
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LOCAL LOCO TRIALS: 1931 style
In this month’s Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT recalls loco trials undertaken by the LMS to assess locomotive coal consumption in a bid to
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