There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

Vintage Trains recreated British Rail Western Region’s 1965 'Farewell to Steam' rail tour, from London Paddington to Bristol ...

As Britain celebrates 200 years of the modern railway, discover the world's oldest track or become a steam train driver for a day Surprisingly, the weather 200 years ago obliged, with the Durham ...

The war in Ukraine has had an effect on many aspects of life all around the world. Inflation, especially in the price of coal, is jeopardizing the future of some of Britain’s living and breathing ...

It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...

I fell in love with railways when I was five years old. I would take a 13-hour journey from London, on a train called the Starlight Special, to see my grandparents in Fife. Steam engines were on the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Many of the UK’s tourist rail operators are in the rare position of hoping for damp weather after an unusually ...

THE celebration of the centenary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway is an occasion of world-wide interest, for from that pioneer line has sprung the vast network of railways which ...