To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829 ...

China and Japan have won the high-speed train race. With bullet trains crisscrossing the Asian supercontinent, it has made the grandfather of rail, the UK look as slow as the rocket. Why does the UK ...

At noon on New Year's Day, a blast of train whistles at the station will signal the start of a year marking 200 years since ...

The steam railway joined heritage lines across the British Isles for a ‘Whistle Up’ when locomotive whistles and horns were ...

200 YEARS OF BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS: Carshalton's Honeywood Museum hosts local transport historian and photographer John Parkin ...

A new visitors' car park is nearing completion and tracks are being laid to the north at Lamb House Bridge, which will eventually connect back ...

At noon on New Year's Day, a blast of train whistles at the station will signal the start of a year marking 200 years since George Stephenson's steam-powered ... of a railway engine transporting ...

Railway rides will be returning to north Dorset for the first time in almost 60 years at the heritage railway station at Shillingstone ...

5 Wiganers are sometimes referred to as “pie-eaters”. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their counterparts in surrounding towns ...

mainly specialising in finely detailed scale models of 19th- and early 20th-century steam-powered road locomotives. “I make the entire engines from scratch,” she told the Ma lvern Gazette in 2007.