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The Thinking About Light Railways before 1896 (and the 1896 Act of Parliament in the UK). The featured image for this article shows a brand new standard-gauge locomotive – 0-6-4T Mersey Railway No. 1 ‘The Major’. It had not yet received its nameplates when it posed in ‘works grey’ at the Beyer, Pea...

The featured image for this article shows 'Argyll' (a Barclay built 0-6-2T) taking its train Southeast out of Campbeltown before turning Southwest to run round the South side of the town. This image was shared on the Machrihanish Online Facebook Page on 26th July 2023. (c) Public Domain. [22] The Ca...

Part 6 - Over Land & Sea: Magical Views and Sea-Hugging Routes on Europe’s Best Coastal Train Lines – Part B – Spain and Italy The featured image for this article comes from the FEVE lines of Northern Spain. It shows a typical DMU in use on the FEVE network, together with a number of single-car...

Friends of The West Highland Lines Journal – ‘West Highland News Plus’ The featured image for this article shows the Jacobite arriving at Mallaig Railway Station, © Mary & Angus Hogg and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA 2.0). [18] In the bookshop at Wemyss Bay Railw...

Corrour Station is near Loch Ossian on the Corrour Estate. It is the highest mainline railway station in the United Kingdom at an elevation of 1,340 feet (410 m) above sea level. It is located between Rannoch and Tulloch, and is sited 71 miles 54 chains (115.3 km) from Craigendoran Junction, near He...

The Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Massachusetts, again. … The featured image for this article is Monson Railroad No. 4 on an Edaville Railroad works train in 1950, © Public Domain. [2: p93] In January 2026, I was reading an early copy of The Railway Magazine and wrote an article about the Edavil...

Ronachan Point, Kintyre – Limestone Tramway Ronachan Point, located on the Kintyre peninsula, features remnants of a very short industrial limestone quarry and a 19th-century tramway used to transport materials to a nearby slipway. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2026/05/17/ronachan-point-kintyre-limesto...

The Guardian Lifestyle Travel – 23rd May 2026 – Part 5 – Over Land & Sea: Magical Views and Sea-Hugging Routes on Europe’s Best Coastal Train Lines – Part A – Scotland, Ireland and Germany The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train jou...

I saw the featured image in a photo book compiled by Alton Douglas for Beacon Radio in 1987, ‘Memories of the Wrekin and Beyond’. It shows Lilleshall Estate’s 2ft-gauge railway in action in 1933. [1: p47] The Lilleshall Estate in Shropshire featured a historic 2-foot gauge miniature railway that ope...

Locomotives of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) – 1920. I have just been given a small pamphlet style paperback book compiled and published in June 1920 by W.G. Tilling. The featured image for this article comes from the frontispiece of Tilling’s book. It is a picture of ...

Railways of Tanzania – Part 7 – The Central Line – An Introductory History and the Length of Line from Dar-es-Salaam to Mikese The featured image for this article is a photograph of East African Railways (EAR) Class 30 steam locomotive No. 3019 ‘Nyamwezi’ at Tabora depot on the Central Line, Tanzan...

The Railways of West Cumberland – Part 2 The featured image for this article is a photograph taken by Walter Dendy of a football excursion returning from Egremont to Carlisle passing through Distington Railway Station behind ex-LMS Class ‘4F’ Locomotive No. 44461 in 1951. The line to the left is to...

The Guardian Lifestyle Travel – Saturday 23rd May 2026 – Part 4 – Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys – Part B The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the fourth part of a look at those pages...

The Guardian Lifestyle Travel – Saturday 23rd May 2026 – Part 3 – Readers’ Favourite Railway Journeys – Part A The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the third part of a look at those pages ...

Part 2 – Nice to Tende The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). This is the second part of a look at those pages. … The featured image for this article is the Train des Merveilles (Train of Wonders), ...

Part 1 – Naples The travel section of the Saturday Guardian Magazine on 23rd May 2023 included a few pages about train journeys in Europe (pages 72 to 77). The featured image for this short article is a photograph of a EAV (Ente Autonomo Volturno)-owned Circumvesuviana train at Napoli Garibaldi sta...

The Modern Tramway – December 1951 – The Bratislava Tramways The featured image for this article is a vintage postcard featuring a tram crossing Hurbanovo námestie in Bratislava, © Public Domain. [7] The Modern Tramway carried a short article by Gerald Druce about Bratislava’s Tramways as he encoun...

The Modern Tramway – June 1951 – Reinstatement of a Street Tramway Route in Helsinki The featured image for this article is the pikkuruotsalainen (“Little Swede”) tram, built by ASEA in Sweden. Together with its open summer trailer, they became a beloved pair on city tracks. The breezy trailers wer...

The Modern Tramway May 1952 – Metrovick Electrical Equipment This short article follows on from an earlier article about the adverts placed in the 1951 issues of The Modern Tramway. The featured image for this article shows Allan Tram No. 107 at work on the streets of Rotterdam, © Voogd075 and lice...

The Modern Tramway 1951 – Some Advertising This short article shows a number of intriguing advertisements from The Modern Tramway magazine in 1951. There were only a few different UK companies in the early 1950s who took out advertisements in The Modern Tramway. These advertisements are of interest...

The Modern Tramway – December 1951 – The New German Standard Tramcar The featured image for this article shows the prototype Standard Tramcar on the streets of Hanover, © Streek en Stadsvervoer, Public Domain. [1: p280] During the 1950s, German trams transitioned from older, war-damaged wooden vehi...

The Modern Tramway – July 1951 – Pittsburgh: An American Tramway Stronghold The Modern Tramway of July 1951 included an article by A. A. Jackson about the tramways of Pittsburgh. The featured image for this article is a vintage Presidents’ Conference Committee (P.C.C.) tramcar- No. 1604. It is from...

The Modern Tramway – February 1951 – The Modernisation of Amsterdam Tram No. 12 In 1939, Amsterdam acquired twelve 2-axle motor cars from the closing electric city tram network in Utrecht (Gemeentetram Utrecht – GTU). These trams, built by Werkspoor in 1927, were introduced to the Amsterdam network...

The Modern Tramway – July 1951 – The Tramways of Clermont-Ferrand The Modern Tramway of July 1951 included an article by Peter J. Jacques about the tramways of Clermont-Ferrand. The featured image for this article is a photograph of one of Clermont-Ferrand’s modern trams. The initial fleet was 26 t...

The Modern Tramway – May 1951 – A Tram-Bus Experiment in Switzerland The featured image for this article is a Forchbahn Bt: 104 + Be 4/4 in service in 1982. These tramcars were built in the 1950s after the experiment described below, © Spoorjan and licenced for reuse under a Creative Commons licenc...

The Modern Tramway – May 1951 – The Tramways of Udine, Italy – Part 1 The Modern Tramway of May 1951 included a short article by Peter J. Jacques about the Tramways of Udine and District. [1] The featured image for this article is a photograph of Sante Gerussi probably dating from the early 1920s. ...

The Modern Tramway – April 1951 – The Tramways of Auckland The April 1951 issue of The Modern Tramway featured an article about the Tramways of Auckland, New Zealand. The featured image for this article shows a series of older trams on Lower Queen Street, Auckland. [1: p85] http://rogerfarnworth.co...

The Modern Tramway – March 1951 – Tramways in Valencia Among other items of international news in the March 1951 issue of The Modern Tramway, was a short series of notes culled from the Spanish magazine, ‘Ferrocarriles y Tranvias’ The featured image for this article shows two different trams operat...

The Modern Tramway – March 1951 – Glasgow Tramways Fare System The March 1951 issue of The Modern Tramway included an article about Glasgow Tramways Fare System, written by F. James Mayhew. [1] The featured image for this article shows a hold up on tram movements on Sauchiehall Street and Renfield ...

The Modern Tramway – March 1951 – The Hill of Howth Tramway Following on from an article written in May 2023, after a visit to Howth. I found an article about the Tramway by C. L. Fry in the March 1951 issue of The Modern Tramway. [2] The May 2023 article covers the route of the line in some detail...