Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.

Newly on public display this summer at Highland Wildlife Park are female snow leopard Pari and two native felines in their ...

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has announced two additional locomotives to its line up for the Annual Diesel Gala ...

The history of Britain's modern railways has been charted in a book celebrating their 200-year anniversary. Enthusiasts ...

Affectionately known as a “Tractor” by enthusiasts for its signature growl, No. 37688 “Great Rocks” was built in 1963 at ...

Tanfield - which is the world’s oldest railway, dating back to 1725 - now has on show Britain's oldest working steam locomotive ... on an open platform in the carriage just behind the absolutely ...

Painted up double doors on carriage 69 // Credit: Downpatrick & County Down Railway The coach is now privately owned and based at Downpatrick and County Down Railway. Recent work on its restoration ...

A couple have won a two year planning battle to use a converted former GWR railway ... to work on this very carriage as a guard. We have had a lot of train drivers where their wives book it ...

The British ... rail regulator, specialising in fares and ticketing. In 1999, he bought a computer with a dial-up modem, and two years later – after stumbling across a teach-yourself book ...

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