How escalators work

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

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO STALLONE’S CROWD-PLEASING CLIMB

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

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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

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history