(CNN) — In the early 1840s, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by train in her own dedicated royal saloons, but more than 180 years later, King Charles III looks set to oversee ...

TV presenter and railway historian Tim Dunn opened a free exhibition in Bury to mark 200 years since the modern railway came to Britain ...

For Germany, this was an economic dream—a way to bypass the British-controlled Suez Canal and access the vast oil fields of ...

Brighton is the subject of the latest episode of a television series looking at Britain’s favourite railway stations.

The government seems to have learned from past errors. Instead of crashing ahead with construction before any scheme is ...

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