DAVID JUKES mixes third-rail and overhead electrification for his chosen pick of EMUs past and present…

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

Dr Paul Brown reveals Britain’s role in patrolling the seas during the height of Cold War tensions with the USSR

This robust, pugnacious aircraft dominated the skies and became the premier carrier-based fighter of the Pacific War

When I started trainspotting in April 1981, it was at Berkswell Station, between Coventry and Birmingham International, and a five-mile bike ride from my home town of Kenilworth. I’d tried Tile Hill s

A vision of a time 11 years before the M3 opened – and when Ford Prefects, Austin Cambridges and telegraph poles were everyday sights