All aboard! celebrating 200 years of rail travel

London’s Transport Commissioner ANDY LORD marks Transport for London’s own special anniversary

In the last of our series expoloring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the skies

2025 marks 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, which gave millions of city-weary walkers a way to escape to the country.

The Ffestiniog Railway has accomplished much during its seven decades in preservation. Here is a timeline of its key milestones.

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

GREG MORSE marks the anniversary of a record run between Waterloo and the Dorset resort in July 1985