VIDEO: Steam locomotive 7000 Britannia passing Severn Tunnel Junction at the head of a rail tour returning to Shoeburyness in Essex from Cardiff. World's first de-extinction animal: Dire wolf howl ...

The long-standing Access for All (AfA) programme to provide level boarding for all railway users is poised to undergo a fresh start - potentially this spring.

Currently, trains pass under the river via the Severn tunnel, which was built almost 140 years ago using picks, shovels, drills, and dynamite. Some 200 trains pass through the four-and-a-half ...

and the Severn Tunnel transports trains on the Great Western line underneath the water from Bristol and London west to Swansea and beyond. But the oldest known crossing point is located from ...

The Severn Tunnel was the site of the last major rail ... One of the UK's most high-profile train accidents of last year was in September 2023, when the Flying Scotsman collided with stationary ...

The tunnel and its approaches are about seven miles (11km) long so the line can dip almost 450ft below the lowest point of the Severn, but ensure the gradient is gentle enough for express trains ...

Network Rail is closing the Severn Tunnel, which connects Bristol Temple Meads and Parkway stations with Newport, Cardiff and the rest of South Wales, to renew and replace the track inside the tunnel.

Father-of-two Thomas Bates, of The Birches, Stourport on Severn, was about to become a dad for the third time when he died in March this year after his disappearance in Chepstow, Gwent. He and his ...

Imagine the levels of complexity when constructing a tunnel with a downward gradient. The gradient of a tunnel is a measure of how steep a slope or a line is. It plays a major role in overall ...