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

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’ve already seen how railways feature in films, but in his latest Top 10 STEPHEN ROBERTS counts down some of the locations used in TV series

Our Mystery Shopper heads to the South West to sample the railways of Cornwall and see if they are giving passengers a good ride

Although some perceived the advent of the locomotive as a threat to the countryside, by allowing artists a quick and easy way to travel, it broadened their choice of painting horizons, discovers Carla Passino