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Specially commissioned private rail cars have transported the royal family around the country for over 150 years, beginning ...
The private train of Britain’s royal family will be retired, King Charles has decided. The first royal train, with special ...
The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. Buckingham Palace says King Charles III has accepted that it’s ...
With Sir Rod Stewart set to take the Sunday teatime legends slot at Glastonbury Festival later this month, South Western ...
She wants passing passengers to look out and get a flash of railway history, with a stylised Locomotion No. 1, a silhouette of the forlorn station and a graphic drawn from a 1960s British Rail menu.
Rail travel could be a feminist issue too. Similarly, messaging for business travellers tightened. Before the 1960s, business travel was about luxury. Now it was about economic efficiency, where ...
Dedicated volunteers have launched an appeal to raise £20,000 to complete the restoration of an historic TC carriage that will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to run from ...
Volunteers are working to bring a 1960s push-pull diesel train back to a branch line after an absence of more than half a century. The trains, once a common sight, have not run on the Corfe Castle ...
This is to complete the restoration of a historic TC carriage which will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to run from Swanage to Corfe Castle for the first time since 1971 ...
In the early 1960s, Richard Beeching was appointed to British Railways in order to improve fortunes. He felt that a good deal of the losses was the result of unprofitable lines leftover from the ...