A TINY station in Northumberland that was closed from the 1960s until last year, has been crowned ‘Britain’s most ...

Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always a busyness about the station, I miss it so much," he says of his ...

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news were there to capture it. Compiled here is never ...

Image source, G A Richardson, Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always ...