The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest pointon any mainline railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic.
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On July 3, 1938, LNER A4 streamlined Pacific No. 4468 Mallard reached 126mph, setting a world steam speed record that has never been broken.
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Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of years out and about with his ABC Combined Volume and his camera at various rail-related locations up and down the country.
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It's a story that began with tolls and turnpikes, advanced to stagecoaches and trains, and continues to this day with the construction of the NC500 and ambitious proposals for space ports in the Highlands that owe more to Star Trek than Outlander.
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So far as most of us are concerned, steam trains vanished in a puff of smoke back in the 1960s, around the time much of the railway network itself disappeared. Other than a few survivors pulling day-trippers along short stretches of track, the received wisdom is that steam is over. Yet the reality is different.
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Borderers with boots made for walking are invited to celebrate the beauty and magnificence of routes between the regions railway stations.
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A proposed north-west railway that never got off the ground will be the focus of an online talk as part of the Ullapool Book Festival, organisers have said.
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There were no shortage of bold plans devised to improve the quality of Highland railways during the Victorian era.
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A rail consultant has told of his surprise at finding a Victorian engineer's proposals for a rail link between Scotland and Ireland.
Edinburgh-based David Spaven believed the plans for a tunnel, causeway or an undersea bridge between Stranraer and Belfast were not widely known today.
The plans feature in a new book, Mapping the Railways, Mr Spaven has co-written with author Julian Holland.
It also includes abandoned ideas for light railways on Skye and Lewis.
Published for the The Times by Collins, the book has been described as the most comprehensive collection of British railway maps dating from 1819 to the present day.

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