Sitting in the heart of the Chilterns, east of Wendover – a “sort of angry London commuter town cosplaying a Tudor village” – sits a “state-of-the-art” concrete bridge, says Martin Robbins. It is desi

Construction of Curzon Street station hasn’t been as rapid as at Old Oak Common at the southern end of the line. But there’s plenty happening in and around the station site. PETER PLISNER reports

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What are the busiest rail freight corridors? It depends how you measure them, as PAUL CLIFTON finds out

PART ONE

TONY STREETER examines how the railways conquered the globe… and continue to do so