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Part 3 – Ballindalloch Railway Station to Boat of Garten This is the third article following the Strathspey Line. The featured image is a Manson O class 4-4-0 locomotive. When the GNSR Directors requested larger engines to handle increasing passenger traffic loads, and Manson designed his Class O (...

A snapshot of advertising from a 1950s Railway Magazine. The featured image is the front cover photograph from the December 1952 issue. The adverts in this issue are an eclectic mix of modelling tools, books, railway equipment, chemical elements, British Railways jobs and miscellaneous items. … http...

Part 2 - Dufftown to Ballindalloch This is the second article following the Strathspey Line. The featured image shows Carron Railway Station early in the 20th century, © Public Domain. [61] We start this next leg of the journey in Dufftown at the Railway Station which is the terminus of the Keith &...

Part 1 – Keith to Dufftown The featured image for this article is the last of the Great North of Scotland 4-4-0s was No.62277 ‘Gordon Highlander’, nick named ‘The Soldier’.  Before being retired for preservation and resorted to its original green livery, No.62277 spent its remaining days in regular...

No. 3 – Christian Wolmar … The Subterranean Railway The featured image for the article below captures the Metropolitan Railway locomotive No. 23 during the London Underground centenary celebrations in 1963. The locomotive is an ‘A’ Class 4-4-0T condensing steam engine, built by Beyer Peacock in Man...

No. 2 – Anthony Burton - The Locomotive Pioneers I received a few welcome gifts for Christmas 2025. This article is the second in a short series about them: Anthony Burton; The Locomotive Pioneers: Early Steam Locomotive Development – 1801-1851; Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2017. Anthony Burton’s book ...

1. Colin Judge I received a few welcome gifts for Christmas 2025. Colin Judge; The Locomotives, Railway and History 1916-1919 of the National Filling Factory No. 14, Hereford; Industrial Railway Society, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 2025, was one of these. I have an abiding interest in the railw...

Part 1 – The ‘Vinegar Works Branch’ or ‘Lowesmoor Tramway’ – An Unusual Branch at Worcester The Railway Magazine of April 1959 carried an article by Anthony A. Vickers about a short branch in Worcester of about 29 chains in length. 29 chains is 638 yards (583.4 metres). The line served Worcester’s ...

The Nice to Digne-les-Bains Line in Provence-Cote d’Azur again. …

The featured image shows one of the present modern diesel units at the Chemins de Fer du Sud/Chemin de Fer de Provence station in Nice.

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The short paragraph immediately below appeared in the February 1952 edition of The Railway Magazine in reply to a question submitted by G. T. Kaye. “The Nidd Valley branch of the former North Eastern Railway (which was closed to passengers on 31st March 1951) terminated at Pateley Bridge, 14 miles f...

Granville Colliery and the Lilleshall Company Railways I was asked to do a talk for the Association of Shrewsbury Railway Modellers in November 2025. These are the notes and images pulled together for that talk. In many cases, the images included have been used in other articles and rather than crea...

The Railway between Nice, Tende and Cuneo – Part 8 – Drap-Cantaron Railway Station to Nice. The featured image is a postcard view of la Trinite-Victor Railway Station in the very early years after the line opened. In the first seven articles about the line from Cuneo to the sea we covered the lengt...

Uganda is to begin construction of its Standard Gauge railway network in April 2026. "Uganda has recently confirmed that its Standard Gauge line from Malaba/Tororo to Kampala will operate with electric traction to European standards rather than diesel traction to Chinese standards." http:/...

Stockport’s 21st Century Trams and Transport for Greater Manchester’s Plans for the Future Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has indicated that it is considering a plan to extending the already proposed East Didsbury to Stockport extension of the Metrolink tram network. The extension would ut...

A short-lived LNWR Interest in the Wenlock Railway and the Ultimate Takeover by the GWR This is little more than a mildly interesting aside. Or perhaps an addendum to the short series about the Line between Wellington and Craven Arms. …. The small companies that built the different lengths of the r...

Part 7 – L’Escarene to Drap-Cantaron Railway Station. This article begins the journey from L’Escarene. Initially, the line heads Southeast but then gradually turns to the the Southwest through Peille, Peillon and Drap before running into Nice. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/09/26/the-railway-betwee...

A review of what Yale University Press calls, 'The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.' http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/10/04/david-gwyn-the-coming-of-the-railway-a-new-global-history-1750-1850-yale-university-press-london-new-haven-2023 I found this book to be easy to re...

Part 6 – Breil-sur-Roya to L’Escarene The featured image in the linked article shows an unidentified steam locomotive crossing the highly unusual Viaduc de Bevera. The train is heading toward Sospel. The article begins the journey from Breil-sur-Roya to Nice. ... South of Breil-sur-Roya a junction ...

The featured image at the head of the linked article is an early view of Thal Railway Station, possibly as early as 1903. By 1881, Khushalgarh had been connected by a short 7 mile (11 kilometre) broad gauge spur to Jand the North Western Railway main line. The length from Khushalgarh to Kohat was in...

The Stockton and Darlington Railway On 27th September 2025 we marked the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway which is accepted the world over as one of the most significant developments in the history of railways, the precursor of all that was to follow in the development of railwa...

Part 5 - Breil-sur-Roya to Airole and Ventimiglia This article follows the line South from Breil-sur-Roya to Ventimiglia in two parts: the first as far as Airole and the second from Airole to Ventimiglia. …. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/08/25/the-railway-between-nice-tende-and-cuneo-part-5-breil-...

Dog Kennel Bridge on the Coleford Branch in the Forest of Dean The Coleford Branch between Monmouth and Coleford replaced an earlier tramroad. The Monmouth Tramroad, linked Monmouth with Coleford and opened in 1810. It was the first rail transport in the immediate area. This is an intriguing struct...

Part 4 - South from St. Dalmas de Tende The featured image in the linked article is a poster for the Nice-Cuneo line. It shows Scarassoui Viaduct with a Northbound steam service between the wars, designed by Adolphe Crossard, © Public Domain. In the first three articles about the line from Cuneo to...

A Tramway in the Valley of the River Roya? (Early 20th Century) While finding out about the line between Cuneo and the Mediterranean coast, I found a few paragraphs in the French language book about the railway which crossed the Col de Tende by Jose Banaudo et al. Those paragraphs were about a prop...

Part 3 - Vievola to St. Dalmas de Tende

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/08/06/the-railway-from-nice-to-tende-and-cuneo-part-3-vievola-to-st-dalmas-de-tende/

Our journey South down the line continues from Vievola. …

Part 2 In the first article about the line from Cuneo to the sea we covered the length from Cuneo to Vernante. This article covers the next length of the line from Vernante to Limone. The Line South from Vernante to Limone A schematic drawing showing the main locations on the line from Vernante to ...

Part 1 The railway from Nice PLM Station to Tende and Cuneo was completed in 1928. It was long in the gestation and in construction. The story stretches back more than a century and a half. ‘Le Chemin de fer du Col de Tende’ is historically a significant local and international line. Its inverted Y...

A short note about extensive alterations at Manchester London Road Station appeared in the December 1958 issue of The Railway Magazine. The major alterations were designed to accommodate the electrification of the line between Manchester and Crewe. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/07/11/manchester-may...

The December 1958 issue of The Railway Magazine featured three photographs of Beyer Garrett locomotives at work in East Africa. These were giants of the metre-gauge that grappled with long loads on steep inclines and at times sharply curved track radii. ....... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/07/08/t...

Lewis, Harris and Skye - "The Soap Man," and some other railways (1890s to 1920s). ... Roger Hutchinson tells the story of Lord Leverhulme's interest in Lewis, Harris and (to a much lesser extent) Skye, in the years following the First World War. Lord Leverhulme purchased Lewis and later H...