CHUFFED to be asked by the National Archive to do a presentation for the bicentenary of Britain’s railways next week, commemorating the first passenger train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825. No sooner had I settled down to my laptop than the news came in yesterday that the government were halting plans for a high-speed line between Liverpool and Manchester – which currently has a pretty terrible service with outdated trains. Dumb timing, and an insult to the […]