Steam lovers were at Melton Mowbray railway station at the weekend to see a special locomotive pass through the town.

Sir David Davies, who has died aged 89, was one of the most influential engineers of his generation, a ground-breaking ...

From bustling hubs to forgotten platforms, these 19 historic photographs reveal the stories of stations lost to the Beeching ...

Britain’s infamous tilting train, invented in the 1970s, dumped in the Eighties. Sitting in the cab, I covered a total ...

Second, Great British Railways should not regulate itself, especially as the White Paper proposes taking key powers away from the independent Office of Rail and Road. In no other regulated sector does ...

British railway history is littered with memorable dates and anniversaries. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the world’s first passenger railway between Stockton and Darlington.

Surrey commuters now face slower journeys than they did 30 years ago Services between London Waterloo and Weymouth take longer than under British Rail ...

Mr Harris said successive British governments did not prioritise their railways as much as they did in places like Japan and Switzerland. "The railway here has always been on the back foot," he added.

Great British Railways faces calls for stronger oversight, more open access and commercial focus, to avoid repeating British Railway mistakes ...

In the early 1990s, Britain launched a bold privatisation experiment. It broke up its national rail operator, British Rail, and handed over rail services to private sector operators, with ...

Great Western Railway names one of its trains after rail pioneer Cyril Bleasdale.

Project Reach, a partnership between Network Rail, Neos Networks and Freshwave, will see an end to some of the worst signal blackspots on the major rail arteries of Britain as the companies team up to ...