Reading station turns 185-years-old this week, having opened its doors in 1840 as a temporary terminus for Brunel’s Great ...

The railway line was built in 1855 as a branch of the Midland Railway, going north through Little Eaton and Coxbench to ...

Memories are short. The reason why the railways were privatised was not for ideology but because the network was failing under the old British Rail. It was underfunded because it was a constant ...

The railways were nationalised under the 1947 Transport Act and managed by “British Railways”. Back in the 1950s, the railway ...

It is an astonishing comeback for a man who was brutally ousted from the old British Rail where he had been a successful but controversial boss of the InterCity Trains division. He got his revenge ...

Mysterious underground tunnels have been discovered during a station upgrade in a quaint UK city, which historians believe had a peculiar purpose. Engineers from Network Rail and South Western Railway ...

Up to 2,000,000 people use Salisbury station in Wiltshire every year without realising an historic labyrinth of tunnels and rooms were lying under their feet. Staff from Network Rail and South Western ...

Railway engineers have uncovered a "labyrinth" of historic tunnels and secret rooms hidden beneath an active railway station. Network Rail and South Western Railway (SWR) staff have discovered the ...

As each operator is nationalised, it is understood that old logos will be dropped and all trains will carry a new Great British Railways logo instead. “We want to usher in a genuinely new era and make ...