On this day… may 22, 1840

With through train and ferry tickets available from most stations in Britain to Ireland and the Netherlands, ANDY COMFORT samples Sail Rail and wonders how many people know about this way of travelling...

With Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle reuniting at Didcot Railway Centre for the first time in 36 years, THOMAS BRIGHT continues the definitive story of the last time these former rivals came together, in Western Australia in 1989.

It’s an inescapable consequence of living in an island nation that, prior to the advent of air travel, everyone arriving in – or departing from – the country would have done so by sea. Over the centur

THE WAY WE WERE

Life in the Victorian slums was balanced on a knife-edge; one late rent payment or missed meal could have fatal results. Born against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, urban areas swelled wit

Bill Barna cruises in company to Guernsey, Jersey, France and back