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Dispute that left society scarred
11:45am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
The Miners' Strike came to an end on March 3, 1985. Twenty five years on, Mark Summers meets David Douglass, a miner and author who has recorded how he felt returning to the coalface after the year-long dispute.
Women, children and fit young men first
10:32am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
WOMEN and children came first on the Titanic but not on the Lusitania – where selfish survival instincts took over after the ship was torpedoed by a German Uboat, research has shown.
Birthday joy for engine maker
10:49am Wednesday 24th February 2010
A RAILWAYMAN who helped build a top-secret, but ultimately unsuccessful, steam engine has celebrated his 100th birthday.
£650,000 bridge keeps rail heritage on track
9:20am Friday 12th February 2010
A £650,000 project to replace a 145-year-old bridge on a popular tourist railway took a major step forward yesterday.
Railways bucking the trend with increase in passengers
8:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010
IT may have been financial doom and gloom for many organisations last year, but one has bucked the trend.
Heritage railway to resume services after 60-year delay
9:58am Thursday 28th January 2010
DAILY passenger services are returning to a North-East heritage line this summer, nearly 60 years after they were withdrawn.
Small is beautiful, says railway boss
10:03am Thursday 28th January 2010
THE man at the helm of Grand Central Railway said he was surprised at the demise of National Express East Coast and suggested small is beautiful when it comes to connecting with rail travellers.
Photographs are donated to rail group
9:03am Thursday 21st January 2010
HISTORIC photographs of a former railway works have been donated to a railway preservation group.
Cold-blooded killing that shocked region
8:23am Monday 4th January 2010
Seventy years ago, a crime took place that horrified the region – the murder of a blind man by a relative, who was tracked down after a nationwide manhunt. Mark Tallentire reports.
Restoration to begin on disaster lifeboat
5:22pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
A LIFEBOAT involved in a rescue disaster nearly five decades ago was yesterday given shelter from the elements months after it was bought on an internet auction site.
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