Navigating nostalgia

Discover the joy of ‘messing about on boats’ with some of the UK’s prettiest canal journeys

Gongoozle your way along one of Scotland’s finest weekend walks, with a single inch of ascent in 31 miles on the towpath of the Union Canal.

OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries

In the second of our series exploring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the roads

SALFORD is very different from when my four-year-old father and his younger sister were taken there to live with his grandparents when their mother passed away. Their father, who worked on the railway

The seaside lido offered safe swimming for holidaymakers irrespective of the vagaries of the tide. Kathryn Ferry looks at the architecture of these remarkable creations