Sir Bob Reid, who has died aged 91, chaired British Rail from 1990 to 1995 after a distinguished career with Shell.

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

The Great Train Robbery remains one of the most infamous heists in British criminal history. In the early 1960s, a masked ...

A new plaque has been unveiled at Brixton station on World Day for Cultural Diversity. The plaque marks the restoration of ...

“They wanted to make Mandapam railway station the new terminal to avoid taking up major modification in the British era Pamban rail bridge due to design and other technical issues,” the former ...

with other rail hubs potentially including Daresbury, Halton, Woodchurch on the Wirral and Carr Mill in St Helens. The UK is celebrating 200 years of railway journeys, with events taking place ...

Lecturer in Marketing, Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London In 2025 Britain is marking the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Many will be quick to celebrate the legacy of ...

Released in 1986, the film follows "a coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s ...

Currently, this stretch is one of the country’s longest rail trail conversions — thanks to the well-maintained Milwaukee Road, a former railway line that closed in 1986. It crosses steel ...

As it turned out, British Rail was in for a rude awakening after the official closure ... Hearings into closure objections by the TUCC opened in Appleby on March 24 1986. Its report - which found that ...

Commuters forced to travel with the UK's "worst-performing rail operator" will be stuck with the same 40-year-old trains for the next five years. Northern Trains, which has been under public ...

Three key UK rail companies will be renationalised next year under Labour's “major shake-up” of British railways. South Western Railway - which provides services in Surrey, Hampshire ...