Red, white and blue: the colours and lines of the union flag have been deployed as the logo for Great British Railways (GBR). This nationalised body will replace the current patchwork of mostly ...

Cartographer George Bradshaw produced the first comprehensive timetable and travel guide of Great Britain's railway system in 1840. Armed with his Bradshaw's Guide, presenter Michael Portillo travels ...

More trains, faster journeys and better reliability promised – but spectre of great timetable fiasco of 2018 looms large Billions of pounds of investment, years of engineering works – and now, the ...

Heartbeat was filmed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but here’s one for you… Where did the Walmington-on-Sea platoon of ...

The U.K.’s new public railway is leaning on well-known, classic symbolism for its visual identity unveiled this month. Train liveries for the new brand will show a design of a stylized Union Jack flag ...

The name originated during the period of Boris Johnson boosterism. People no longer want Brexit triumphalism, but things that actually work What’s in a name? A government minister has a good answer ...

A vintage locomotive has been put up for sale by Leicestershire-based Great Central Railway (GCR). The locomotive needs substantial work to make it usable. GCR is currently arranging the disposal of ...

For true rail fans, the ultimate luxury is traveling in a private rail car. It was the preferred method of travel across the United States during the late Gilded Age for the likes of the Vanderbilts ...

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Europe’s Christmas markets hardly need help feeling charming, but somehow trains make them even more so. While the rails carry you past storybook villages and evergreen-studded hills, the journey ...