Adam OConnor

Insight into the charity that looks after more than 650 disused railway structures with the intention of them hosting foot and cycle paths.

For civil engineering types who enjoy a busman’s holiday, the dramatic landscape of Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula offers much to enthuse about, having tested railway and road builders alike. On the ...
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A report on London Midland’s official launch of its new Class 350/3 fleet which will progressively enter service over the next few weeks.

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Its colour scheme might get repainted by the seasons but we tend to view Britain’s natural landscape as a constant, not changing much from one Ice Age to the next. The reality of course is subtly different as adverse weather, seismic activity and human intervention – quarrying, mining, forestry and the like – all act [...]

Architecture inevitably splits opinion. As an analogue child, I find myself smitten with the exquisite Victorian façades that radiate affluence into West Yorkshire’s mill towns. Step out of Huddersfield Station and one steps back 150 years – only the smog and horse muck is missing. Today’s glass and steel erections, whilst often spectacular, sometimes feel [...]

Collieries and railways, in their various forms, have a long history of happy coexistence. Wooden wagonways were commonly carrying minerals to river wharves back in the 17th century. As new coal mines appeared in the landscape, tracks were soon laid to serve them. And their produce did of course power the railway’s locomotives throughout the [...]