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Afternoon all, Just got back from a holiday to the USA, and during my trip I visited the Grand Canyon. While there, I was lucky enough to cop Grand Canyon Railway's No. 29 locomotive at the village station on a charter for a filming contract. I was talking to a spotter who informed me that the...

Afternoon all, On a complete fluke, I copped a pair of very chilly-looking HSTs and 2 Mk. 3s running on the MML today. On getting home to check, RTT has it down as 598F 1035 from Doncaster to Leicester. I have noticed in recent weeks and months some FGW Mk. 3s at the depot in pristine...

Increasingly, I fear that in the future the heritage rail industry will be hit by tightening emissions regulations and the increasing scarcity and cost of fossil fuels. Jo Johnson's latest quip about seeking to make the railways free of diesel-only power trains by 2040 is obviously a necessary...

When I was a kid, I used to get taken on holiday to Dawlish quite often, which I of course loved due to the railway on the sea wall. This would have been around 2001-2002, and represents some of my earliest vivid memories of specific railway movements (as opposed to "wow, it's a train!" kind...