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Network Rail’s recovery programme to stabilise performance between Reading and London Paddington has been running for a year. It has another year to go. PAUL CLIFTON joins the project leaders to assess progress

All aboard as JD Savage takes the fast track through 200 years of train travel.

To mark the bicentenary of the first public passenger steam railway, Tom Chesshyre picks his top British train trips

BEN PLOWDEN has taken over the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Campaign for Better Transport at a moment of huge change on the railway. ANTHONY LAMBERT talks with him about the priorities for central government, devolved administrations and Great British Railways

As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway, Emily Scaife explores the enduring bond between trains, rail lines and our great British countryside

The country home of Lord Armstrong, Cragside, was the first house in the world to use hydro-electric power. In addition to electric light, it boasted a hydraulically powered dishwasher and dumb waiter