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 ...

UK: The first national railway clock design since British Rail's 1974 design manual has been unveiled in physical and digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most rail journeys in Great Britain will be under public ownership by the middle of next year, the Transport Secretary is expected to announce. Speaking at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, ...

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.

A group of young history enthusiasts from Palakkad visited the British-era Kanhirakadavu stone rail arch bridge near Kottekkad on Friday, seeking to uncover forgotten chapters of local history. The ...

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 ...

Performance at South Western Railway has plummeted in the months since it became the first network to be brought under state ownership, piling fresh scrutiny on the government’s nationalisation drive ...

The first generation of real-time train information screens for British railways came in the form of suspended color CRTs in familiar rounded fiberglass housings. They were a ubiquitous sight ...

Labour says services returning to public control will transform railways into a more reliable, affordable and accessible system. Most rail journeys in Great Britain will be under public ownership by ...