Step aboard the British Pullman, England’s most luxurious train, and travel back in time to the golden age of rail. In this ...

A maze has been designed in the shape of a steam train to celebrate 200 years of modern railway. Wistow Maze in ...

Richard Beeching, chair of the British Transport Commission, holds a press conference in London to announce his proposed restructuring of Britain’s railways, 1963 (Getty) At Ipswich, the East ...

He argues that British Rail found its feet in the 1980s and 1990s and was making progress. A brilliant generation of managers was finding ways to drive up traffic and, in some cases, reopen closed ...

In 1934, it became the first locomotive in the UK to reach 100mph during a special test run, and it was retired by British Rail from normal service in 1963. The Flying Scotsman in the yard at ...

First opened in 1868, the brief of its architect, William Henry Barlow, had been to build the world’s fastest and grandest railway station to reflect Britain’s international pre-eminence.

British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS, running the railroad took paper.

The Flying Scotsman in the yard at Wansford station (Joe Giddens/PA) (PA Wire) ... was in action as part of the celebrations for 200 years of British passenger rail services.