Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Dan Snow traces the development ...

Train enthusiasts have hit out after a new Exhibition Train launched to mark 200 years of the National Railway has been fitted with an American whistle. After listening to a segment of Broadcasting ...

When britain’s railways were nationalised for the first time, in 1948, politicians steamed. Conservative peers called it “a most ghastly mistake” and “by far the biggest measure of Socialism which had ...

Lecturer in Marketing, Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London In 2025 Britain is marking the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Many will be quick to celebrate the legacy of steam ...

It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...

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 ...

Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want ...