In the months leading up to Military Boekelo, Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier found herself sitting on the metaphorical ...

Read on to find out why a rail worker's refusal to work on Sundays resulted in a 'useless' train winning one of the most famous locomotive competitions in history ROCK and railways have been music ...

It’s essential to ensure that passengers’ needs and experiences are at the heart of the UK's new railway network. By Anthony Smith This autumn, parliament will turn its attention to one of the most ...

Today marks 200 years since the world’s first passenger railway journey. On September 27, 1825, around 450 people made the 26-mile journey from Shildon to Stockton in the north-east of England on a ...

Speaking at the party’s annual conference, Heidi Alexander is expected to reveal the next four services to be brought into public ownership. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has hailed rail reforms ...

Two hundred years after the first passenger train rolled down the tracks, these iconic rail journeys still inspire awe and wonder. On 27 September 1825, reporters and onlookers from across England ...

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Great Western Railway will be brought under public ownership as the Government pledges to "deliver reliable, comfortable and more affordable journeys", the Transport Secretary is expected to announce.

Joe Campbell travels a section of the new freight rail service between Southampton and Doncaster as he takes a deep dive into the future of England's railways. The opening of the world's first railway ...

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 ...

In our weekly On This Week feature, we take a look at what was hitting the headlines in 1992, as well as a picture from the ...