Six of the best railway hotels

Sometimes it’s good the boss goes away on holiday. Not just for the increased office chat in their absence, but for what happens when they return. About 10 years ago, the managing director in the publ

If your only experience of train travel is a daily commute to work, or trips to visit friends or family in the UK, then it might not be your first choice as a way to go on holiday. After all, with exc

Back in the 18th Century, Henry’s Townhouse, in London’s village-like Marylebone area, was the home of acclaimed author Jane Austen’s (reportedly favourite) brother Henry, a failed barrister, we’re to

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THE MUCH-MISSED Somerset & Joint Dorset Railway, between Bath and Bournemouth, might have closed on March 7, 1966, but a part of it is being revived at Shillingstone station, writes John Stretton. The

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler