Whether Metroland breakfasts or picnics on the go, the railways have transformed how we eat forever, finds Emma Hughes

From Brown Windsor Soup to how we came to have fish and chips, ANDY COMFORT discovers the railway’s links with food and fine dining

The appeal of being lulled to sleep as a sleeper train rattles homewards is synonymous with adventure and romance, says Mary Miers

The railway revolution opened up new destinations, expanded our culinary horizons and dramatically improved trade. Jonathan Self takes us on a whistle-stop tour of ‘railway mania’

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We’re heading into a momentous year for railway preservation as the Talyllyn Railway marks 75 years since it was saved from almost certain extinction to become the first heritage railway. But how did the concept of railway preservation emerge and develop? MARK PEARCE digs deeper.