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 ...

This weekend's Autumn Steam Weekend at the West Somerset Railway will feature three locomotives that spent much of their ...

An iconic steam locomotive is set to make its way through Somerset this summer. No. 60163 Tornado makes its return to the main line this summer hauling steam day trips from Bristol, Yatton, Taunton ...

Passenger train service in Oneonta had ended only a few years earlier, and it had been much longer since anyone had seen a steam locomotive engine running on the rails in our area. That might explain ...