British Rail's push for modernization meant the rapid demise of thousands of steam locomotives. The Barry Island Scrapyard in ...

About 4,000 railway stations have been closed in Britain ... and there is a great café in the stable yard. Winter short breaks from £390, summer weeks from £840 (railholiday.co.uk).

UK: Network Rail has awarded British Steel a £500m five-year deal to supply a minimum of 337 000 tonnes of rail from its ...

but there’s one bit of Britain’s railway that perhaps doesn’t get enough praise – British Rail. Abbreviated to BR, the brand is 60 this year. BR officially began trading in 1965 and ended with the ...

"Originally there were just the tracks in as British Rail had stopped using it as a goods yard. Then all of a sudden the tracks moved as British Rail took them up. "So then there was just this ...

About 4,000 railway stations have been closed in Britain ... and there is a great café in the stable yard. What could be better than arriving at your holiday cottage by narrow-gauge steam ...