Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...
UK: Rail Business UK looks at what the government's Railways Bill will do, how Great British Railways will be established and ...
Incidents like the mass stabbing on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday are mercifully rare in Britain.
It’s an old canard that railways work better on the Continent. But do they? Glib generalisations have become even more suspect since most countries diluted the monopoly of a single national operator, ...
Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want ...
Britain will create a new public railway operator called Great British Railways in the biggest reform of the network in a quarter of a century, though there will be no return to the notoriously ...
NTSNs set technical standards for rail vehicles, infrastructure, and operations, covering passenger and freight rail on mainline, high-speed networks (HS1, HS2), and the UK section of the Channel ...
A magical winter wonderland journey along Britain's most scenic railways. A magical winter wonderland journey along Britain's most scenic railways, from the Severn Valley Railway's dazzling Steam in ...
University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The government’s recent rail review, therefore, is a big deal. More than the mere improvements the Department of ...
A steam train ride reveals how the Brontë sisters became railway revolutionaries. A steam train ride through the Yorkshire moors to reveals how the Brontë sisters became railway revolutionaries, and ...
A family in the U.K. has one of the country’s smallest funicular railways – a type of cable railway system on an incline – at their home. Ali Atkinson, 41, and her husband Owen, 42, bought the house ...