Rail UK - British Railways 1823 - 2008

Feature - Sir Nigel Gresley

• Gresley Biography
  He first worked on the railways as an apprentice at Crewe......
• Gresley Locomotives
  Gresley locomotives and other information on the engineer...
• Gresley Loco Images
  Photo gallery of Gresley locomotives...

What's New

Stations - Continually Being

Accident Nr Didcot 20/11/1956 - 70026 20 Mar

Southern Steam LSWR Class H16 26 Mar

Southern Steam LSWR Class K10 26 Mar

The Woodstock Branch - Kidlington to Woodstock 30 Mar

Southern Steam LBSC Class I2 5 Apr

Southern Steam LBSC Class H1 8 Apr

Southern Steam LBSC Class H2 8 Apr

Southern Steam LBSC Class I1X 9 Apr

Southern Steam LBSC Class I4 9 Apr

Southern Steam LSWR Class L11 10 May

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Now identified. Loco 1009 is a GWR loco. It was built at Wolverhampton Aug 1866 (works no 38) and survived until Jan 1904. This class (Class 111) worked almost entirely in the GWR Northern Division, and many were shedded at Chester. Actually, it may be at Chester in the photo. The photo is dated c1870, and is (C) LPC

PC Tops

PC Tops the original PC based database system for keeping track of loco, unit, coach and wagon numbers, along with the ability to record sightings has now been resurrected as on-line web based system and due to completely go live at the end of April.

First produced for use with MS DOS using 5¼ and 3½ floppy disks in 1988, it progressed through various stages to Windows 3.1/Windows XP using hard disks, to this latest internet based system.

Over the past 20 years, the original system has been purchased by over 2,500 users, maintaining its position as the market leader over these years while other similar systems came and went.

Free data conversion of all sightings data for existing users who have the PC TOPS desktop application

Register and try the system for free until the end of April

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