RAIL Columnist

In the first of two columns, Vitali Vitaliev recalls his life’s most important train journey

The Basildon Model Railway Club ’s re-creation of the London Blitz highlights how the railways – and the capital – kept running through some of Britain’s darkest days.

Review of reviews: Books

Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them