In Yorkshire, Kirklees took second place as the best to live in, followed by Calderdale and East Yorkshire. Wakefield took ...

British Rail's push for modernization meant the rapid demise of thousands of steam locomotives. The Barry Island Scrapyard in Wales became an unintentional haven for preservationists determined to ...

Rachel Reeves has put investment at the heart of her first spending review.The Chancellor has given the go-ahead for new ...

Although the Astronomer Royal post is largely honorary today, it has long been a title awarded to the most prominent ...

Rock ‘n’ roll icon and Dr. Feelgood co-founder Wilko Johnson was celebrated yesterday in a special ceremony at Southend ...

Britain’s only other night train ... a single line traverses the long peninsula of Devon and Cornwall. Seen on a railway map it almost resembles a river system: the mainline fed by the ...

Reid: known as Bob Reid II after succeeding another Sir Robert Reid (no relation) as British Rail chairman - Tony Prime ...

Celebrating the county's LGBTQIA+ community, Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership is launching a new, illustrated transport map and pop-up exhibition for Pride Month this June 2025. Celebrating ...

So part of their philosophy in achieving the shot in Born Again involved a cinematic philosophy that they call the “train tracks of fate.” Watch one minute of the fight scene in the clip below ...

The history of Britain's modern railways has been charted in a book celebrating their 200-year anniversary. Enthusiasts across Essex and Suffolk designed the 45-page text with the help of children ...

A 200-mile long rain bomb is expected to lash Britain in the next few days, weather maps show. According to WXCharts, the gigantic formation will make landfall at 6am Thursday morning, May 29 ...

Nothing, except that one train has been repainted with the putative Great British Railways logo and will therefore look a bit different. The nationalised rail operation will have the same ...