One of the UK’s busiest railway networks is getting brand new £1bn trains. South Western Railway (SWR) says commuters will be able to enjoy more reliable and less interrupted journeys because ...

The UK railway is a complex arrangement of organisations and engineering systems, all of which need to fulfil their respective objectives whilst integrating into the overall system to provide a ...

This clip is from the series Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways. 1. Imagine you had invested in the Stockton-Darlington railway in 1825.Would you invest in this line as well?What factors ...

This clip is from the series Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways. 1. Write a newspaper report describing the opening of the line in 1825.Before you write it, study some present day ...

The transformative trains are the first in the UK that can use diesel or battery power on sections of railway track where ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... paid for by those who can afford it. “Britain’s railways are broken.” So says – or said – the transport ...

Go-op, the UK’s first ever co-operatively owned rail service, is one step closer to becoming a reality. The Office of Road and Rail (ORR) has just given Go-op’s bid to run journeys around ...

However, a visitor does not have to be eagle-eyed to spot the history of rail in one Histon café: The Station House. For more than one hundred years, commuters waiting for a train would have ...

History was made on Saturday, November 16th, 2024, when a push-pull set formed of mkVI coaches ran a rail tour from Dublin ...

Today (Thursday, November 14), Historic England has revealed its Heritage at Risk Register 2024, which shows that Heighington station is one of six sites in the North East added to the register this ...