Mike Priestley's Railway Heritage Blog

I had never set foot in Charing Cross station, and so having just missed a bus to King’s Cross on the Strand, we took a few minutes to have ...

Prompted by the Leicester and East Midlands Open Art Exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery and the added attraction of a possible sneak p...

What to do on a thoroughly wet day? We went to the Usher Gallery in Lincoln to see Richard Ansett’s Liminal Presence display, subtitled A St...

I have a copy of the splendid book, Britain’s 100 Best Railway Stations alongside me. Yesterday, I dropped in on Congleton station in Cheshi...

It is a lovely valley, which changes in stages as you proceed westwards. From a wide and undulating plain around Leeming Bar to a broad and ...

Striding east to west across the Erewash valley on the border of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is Bennerley viaduct. A quarter of a mile lo...

York station is always a pleasure. Such a magnificent building in its own right, it occupies a wide curve where the main line heading north ...