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During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself it must modernise. The bankrupt, steam-powered railway, run by a Colonel Blimp, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high-speed electric? o…
"When a 35-mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle opened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant opening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report, "The reshaping of British Railways", was published in March 1963. In his repor…