How water can be a destructive force on the railway

Reduced services could continue for months. RAIL heads out on track to assess the scale of the challenge

Our final extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey through Two Centuries of British Railway History, 1825-2025 takes us to 2000… and an accident that would change the face of the railway

DR JOSEPH BRENNAN considers the challenge to make the railway safer, and how lessons can be learned from incidents at level crossings

An ever-improving safety record is no accident - it’s all about learning from mistakes, with every tragedy teaching the railway something new.

Today we might minimise or even overlook the railway’s significance, because it is such an established part of our lives. Yet at its height the industry employed more than half a million people across

Mark Pearce’s