Marsden Rail

Enjoy the atmosphere of a busy regional railway centre in the 1960's as it copes with both passenger and freight traffic, with over 50 steam hauled...

Situated 14 miles north of York, on the East Coast Main Line, Pilmoor witnessed a constant procession of freight and passenger trains in the steam...

Carlisle, a major railway centre on the West Coast Main Line, was a fascinating place in the early sixties and this programme shows the area before...

Darlington works built and repaired locomotives from 1863 to 1966 and many of the locomotives featured in this programme were built or repaired in...

The West Midlands in the early 1960's was a hive of activity and the yards at Stourbridge Junction handled large tonnages of freight for the...

With over 150 passenger, parcels and empty stock workings and more than 80 freight workings in a normal day the West Coast Main Line station at...

The words coal and Durham are bound together in the history of the county with many coalmines and their railway lines staying open until the 1960s,...

The Railway map of Birmingham and the West Midlands was extremely complicated, with the Midland, London North Western and Great Western Railways all...

In the 1960s the ex-LMS and ex-LNER Joint Station, Leeds City, was about to become the primary station in Leeds as the Central Station closed and...

The former Great Central Railway Main Line from Sheffield Victoria to London Marylebone closed to through traffic on the 3rd of September, 1966 and...

If you liked ex-LNER Pacifics, then Doncaster was the place to see them. At speed and stationary, ex-works and work-stained, on top link passenger...

In 1960 there were seven different rail routes approaching the City of Kingston-upon-Hull. There were also two circular routes within the City from...

In this programme, some of North Yorkshire's long lost branch lines are looked at, the main feature being a ride on the daily pick-up goods train...

In the second volume of Great Central, we look at Staveley G C engine depot and ride on a Class O4 freight locomotive. We watch another O4 shunt the...

Hellifield Station and Junction, 36 miles from Leeds on the Midland Route north to Carlisle, was still a very busy place in the late 1950's with...

Market Weighton, East Yorkshire is a collection of memories in an area bounded by York, Bridlington, Driffield and Beverley. The crossing point of...

This programme looks at the area South of the River Tyne from Gateshead to Tyne Dock. We journey to North Durham in the cab of a Class V2 loco-hauled...

Retford is a small market town in North East Nottinghamshire and was also a very important railway junction until the 1960s. Situated some 20 miles...

Until the 1960s, Leeds could boast three large stations: Central, Wellington and New, together with many suburban stations, five locomotive depots:...

In addition to looking at the trains that operated on the East Coast Main Line, we also look at the unusual railway scenes in and around York. These...