Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always a busyness about the station, I miss it so much," he says of his ...

Paul Antell said the closure of the railway was an "emotional time" "The atmosphere it created was hard to explain. It was like one big family," said Paul Antell, describing the community of a railway ...