LAST week, we featured a picture of a porter at Darlington’s Bank Top station standing on top of some precious-looking Christmas parcels on December 22, 1962. Half seen in the background was the ...

IF you are sitting comfortably, Paul Stretton of Bishop Auckland has a story for you. “Right into the 1930s, the railway companies used horse and carts to move goods from their stations,” he ...

One manufacturer which was pivotal in the early to mid-20th Century is Scammell, which developed an articulated six-wheeled low-loader after WW1 and went on to produce the three-wheeled Mechanical ...

This evolved into the Scammell Scarab, with the single front wheel offering exceptional manoeuvrability and the rounded steel cab providing driver comfort. ...