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So much of Britain’s diverse wealth of historic railway infrastructure still exists in one shape or another -if you know where to look. TIM DUNN goes exploring

From giant levers to tiny mouse clicks: it’s taken a year longer than promised and cost more than £120 million, but a major project is now nearing completion.

A solution has been put forward to reopen Edinburgh’s South Suburban Railway for passenger services. And momentum is gathering, as CONRAD LANDIN reports

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

The Saudi Crown Prince wanted to reinvent urban living with his “linear city” stretching 170km across the desert. But with construction on The Line having already stalled, many are asking if the project was ever remotely feasible.