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EARLIER this month, I had the joy of travelling behind the Flying Scotsman, the most famous steam locomotive in the world, on a memorable journey from York to Newcastle. Sixty years previously in 1965, I had rushed out as an excited schoolboy to capture an image of the engine with my Kodak Brownie camera after […]

EARLIER this month, I had the joy of travelling behind the Flying Scotsman, the most famous steam locomotive in the world, on a memorable journey from York to Newcastle. Sixty years previously in 1965, I had rushed out as an excited schoolboy to capture an image of the engine with my Kodak Brownie camera after […]

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MASSIVE  tribute to LNER train driver for his quick thinking into pulling his express train into a wayside platform after learning last night there had been a murderous stabbing spree on his train from Doncaster to King’s Cross also. He did this within 8 minutes of the first 999 call. All credit also to the […]

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 […]

I HAVE been honoured this year to be appointed chair of the 2025 Hugh Cudlipp Award. Cudlipp was one of the titans of modern journalism. Our panel of distinguished media figures have now completed their judging. Although we cannot reveal our verdict until the ceremony on October 22, we can confirm that today’s journalism is […]

  MY Son Edmund and I had great day in Derby to celebrate 200 years of Britain’s railways at the “Greatest Gathering” – the world’s biggest ever assembly of historic trains. Big-up to Alstom who hosted it in their historic Litchurch Lane factory!It sometimes seems fashionable to deride corporates. But here was a proud icon […]

JUST returned from travelling on the North Borneo Railway, one of the remotest railways in the world. It was a wonderful trip from Kota Kinabalu into the jungle along the South China Sea. Built by the British to transport tobacco, it is astonishing it is still running. There are even two splendid steam locomotives, built […]