‘i sat gawping for hours’

How running across Australia pushed Jack Pitcher to breaking point

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

Something to say? This is your platform...

With through train and ferry tickets available from most stations in Britain to Ireland and the Netherlands, ANDY COMFORT samples Sail Rail and wonders how many people know about this way of travelling...

With Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle reuniting at Didcot Railway Centre for the first time in 36 years, THOMAS BRIGHT continues the definitive story of the last time these former rivals came together, in Western Australia in 1989.

I can smell the hay now. Just cut. When farmers feverishly gathered one last crop before autumn. Sitting in England, writing about Switzerland, I am transported back to touring through some of Europe’