All aboard! celebrating 200 years of rail travel

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 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

CONSIDER FOR A moment, as we are pressured into adopting zero-emissions vehicles and the ban on the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles becomes imminent, that Britain, in public transport at least, was on

Catherine Fairweather finds a dream-like world of old-school glamour aboard the new Orient Express journey from Rome to Venice, where ancient ruins melt into rolling Italian landscapes steeped in Renaissance romance