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Bottoms to TOPS At the next meeting in Manchester of the North West Group of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Graham Boyes will give a talk entitled “Bottoms to Tops, 40 years of computer development on British Railways.” The talk will be given at the RCHS meeting at the Friends Meeting Hous...

Woodville Road Halt This halt was served by a shuttle service from Cardiff Docks (later Bute Road and now Cardiff Bay) to Maindy Halt. It only had a platform in the northbound direction so anyone wanting to go to Cardiff would have to travel via Maindy. Normally trains terminated at Maindy before r...

THE SECOND RAILWAY KING : The Life and Times of Sir Edward Watkin, 1819 – 1901 by David Hodgkins, published by the Merton Priory Press, 2002 713 pages (226 x 126mm), 53 b/w plates, 21 maps ISBN 1 898937 49 4 The Railway & Canal Historical Society (RCHS) have acquired the remaining stock of this boo...

Can anyone point me in the direction of information and/or publications on the history of the extensive railway system that served Trafford Park Industrial Estate in Manchester? (These railways were quite separate from the Manchester Ship Canal Railway.) I am aware of the article on Wikipedia!

Politics and Railways in Ireland: Dr Phil Lloyd – Saturday 9th November 2019 Following his talk to the Railway & Canal Historical Society in January on politics and railways in Wales, Phil returns to focus on Ireland. The talk will be given at the November meeting of the Railway & Canal Historical ...

Thomas Brassey The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Thomas Brassey, one of the foremost railway contractors of the early 19th Century. The inaugural public meeting of the Thomas Brassey Society will be held in Chester on 18th November 2019. During the last 12 months the society...

Thanks. I am aware of the information in Quick's Chronology which gives the timetable dates. I was trying to determine when the eastbound service actually ceased due to the flood damage and when it re-commenced after the loop had been removed. These would not necessarily be the same as the timetable...

Gatehouse of Fleet Station Gatehouse of Fleet was a passing place on the largely single-track Dumfries to Stranraer railway (known as the ‘Port Road’). The Scottish Region timetable for Summer 1964 shows a rather strange service with trains at this station in a west-bound direction (i.e. towards St...

This chronology is intended to set out some of the more significant events in the recent history of transport and communication, with particular reference to public transport, in the British Isles since the end of 1944. It cannot hope to cover the closure or opening of every branch railway or canal,...

Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain, A Chronology (5th edition) Over thirty years ago, Michael Quick amused himself by drawing maps showing the changing aspects of Britain’s railway network over time. Discovery of many gaps and anomalies in recording station names led him into the task of r...