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The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Pickering to Whitby.The North Yorkshire Moors Railway crosses the national park between Pickering and Whitby, a 24-mile run over open moor and down to the coast. The first section opened in 1835, and the preserved line has…
The Polar Express train ride: where it runs in the UK in 2026.The Polar Express Train Ride is a licensed Christmas event that heritage railways stage on real steam trains, based on the 1985 picture book by Chris Van Allsburg. For 2026 at least three British railways…
The posterSix guides to the railway poster. From booking hall to museum drawer.
The Ribblehead Viaduct, on the moor above Ribblesdale.The Ribblehead Viaduct carries the Settle to Carlisle line across Batty Moss on 24 stone arches, 104 feet high at the tallest, and you can walk to its foot from Ribblehead station in a few minutes. This…
The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Hythe to Dungeness.The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway runs 13 and a half miles along the Kent coast from Hythe to Dungeness, on rails only 15 inches apart. Its engines are built to a third of full size, and the oldest…
The Settle to Carlisle Railway, the long way north.The Settle to Carlisle Railway is 72 miles of track through the Pennine hills. It opened in 1876 and still carries regular trains over the Ribblehead Viaduct. It is the one railway journey in England that…
The Severn Valley Railway, Kidderminster to Bridgnorth.The Severn Valley Railway runs 16 miles between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, through Worcestershire and Shropshire beside the River Severn. It opened in 1862, lost its passenger trains in 1963, and was…
The Snowdon Mountain Railway: the journey to the summit.The Snowdon Mountain Railway climbs 4.7 miles from Llanberis to the summit of Yr Wyddfa, 1085m up, and it is the only public rack and pinion railway in the United Kingdom. It was built in little more than a…
The Strathspey Railway, Aviemore to Broomhill.The Strathspey Railway runs from Aviemore through Boat of Garten to Broomhill. The operator puts the journey at about an hour and forty minutes, with views of the Spey valley and the Cairngorm mountains.…
The Swanage Railway, Swanage to Norden by way of Corfe Castle.The Swanage Railway runs from the seaside town of Swanage through Herston, Harmans Cross and Corfe Castle to Norden, passing below the ruined castle on the way. The branch closed in 1972 and was rebuilt in…
The Talyllyn Railway, Tywyn to Nant Gwernol.The Talyllyn Railway climbs more than seven miles from Tywyn on the Welsh coast to Nant Gwernol, on a narrow gauge of 2 feet 3 inches. It calls itself the first preserved railway in the world, and it has a…
The Vale of Rheidol Railway, Aberystwyth to Devil’s Bridge.The Vale of Rheidol Railway climbs from Aberystwyth up the Rheidol valley to Devil’s Bridge on narrow gauge track, behind steam. It opened in 1902 and was the last steam railway British Rail owned. This…
The Watercress Line: the Mid Hants Railway, and why it is called that.The Watercress Line runs 10 miles through Hampshire between Alresford and Alton, over the Mid-Hants Railway that opened in 1865. Its name comes from the crop it once carried to London. This guide covers the…
The West Somerset Railway: twenty miles, ten stations.The West Somerset Railway runs 20 miles from Bishops Lydeard to the sea at Minehead, an old Great Western branch line that closed in 1971 and reopened in stages from 1976. This guide covers the route, its…
Train gifts and railway presents, from their own photographsAnybody who has been interested in railways for more than about a year owns the merchandise. The calendar, the book they were given twice, the mug with a stock locomotive on it. What they almost never own…
Train gifts for menThe rest of this stage assumes a digital file exists. For an older enthusiast it very often doesn't, because the railway that matters to him is thirty or forty years back and lives in a shoebox of prints…
Train wall art from your photoEight formats, from paper to bottle. What each is, and what suits it.
Vintage and retro railway posters, and where the look came fromVintage railway travel posters were printed advertisements, made to sell a destination from a booking-hall wall. Search for one and you mostly get shops. This is the reading instead: what those posters…
Your photographGetting the file right comes first. Then the styles, then the size.
Your photograph in an oil-painting style, and the four other stylesA commissioned oil painting means a fee and a wait of weeks. This is not that. You upload a railway photograph, the studio restyles it, and you see a watermarked version on screen before any money changes…