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IF YOU have any interest in the shifting sands of the media in shaping modern Britain, then I beg you to to see “In the Print” – a dramatisation of Rupert Murdoch’s battle with the print unions at Wapping. It is a gripping re-creation of the period. (I should know, I was there!) At the […]

Great day yesterday taking our Bedlington Terrier Alfie back to his homeland in Northumberland to join a doggy line-up to celebrate the opening of the new Bedlington station in Northumberland. Alfie was Number 5 in the race for the first 25 dogs to get there for the prize, thanks to the high-speed LNER Azuma trains. […]

A THRILLING journey at high speeds from Euston to Carlisle along the West Coast Main Line this week behind ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’, of the world-speed record holding A4 class, and Deltic diesel ‘Royal Scots Grey’ – in its day the most powerful diesel loco in the world. What do these splendid vintage machines have in […]

  “WHY THE BRITISH LOVE THE RAILWAYS”  This is my presentation, commissioned by the National Archives, and broadcast on JANUARY 16 2026 THE HORDES marching from the station along Derby’s Midland Road on this summer day in 2025 are seemingly endless. Here are folk of all varieties and complexions – men and women, young and […]

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 […]