London’s iconic bridges

Your indispensable guide to the capital

The historian, author and former director of planning and development at English Heritage tells Anne Cuthbertson about his life and work in the capital

RICHARD WILCOCK goes up on the roof to get a first-hand report on how the teams have kept the UK’s busiest station open while repairing its Victorian roof

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

Schemes to renew capital’s stations must offer improvements but acknowledge the past

PAUL CLIFTON picks ten of the best (and worst), declaring: “There are numerous poetry anthologies on the subject of travel. I have an entire shelf of them. Choosing just ten about railways is highly subjective. Here is my flawed selection: some familiar to everyone and one you might rather forget…”