Future steam power

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

Hybrid engines and bi-mode locomotives are nothing new. One of the most notorious examples of early experimentation into multiple fuels and ways of driving a locomotive was the Kitson-Still locomotive of 1928. Today largely forgotten, was this one-off 262T a total failure, or simply ahead of its time?

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

EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE

How energy is generated and transported to our neighbourhoods