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Though not always successful, Brunel’s designs revolutionised trans
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
Discover the joy of ‘messing about on boats’ with some of the UK’s prettiest canal journeys
The second railway age…
OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries
Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev
he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd
