NAGANO ELECTRIC RAILWAY PROMOTES YEAR-ROUND TRAVEL, BALANCING SEASONAL TOURISM WHILE SUPPORTING CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Winding through the Southern Alps in New Zealand, the TranzAlpine is lauded as one of the world’s greatest rail journeys, but few know that its well-worn tracks also trace the path of an ancestral Māori trade route

DID you really grow up here?” Kerry tried not to shiver as she walked round the empty rooms. And not just because the heating hadn’t been on for a long time and the sound of the rookery in the nearby

After years of delays and funding issues, the new stations on Birmingham’s Camp Hill Line are finally taking shape. PETER PLISNER reports

PART TWO

UK racer Ben Moore has just returned from China’s biggest MTB event, the Forlong Mountain Bike Festival in Hebei province. “It was a very interesting week,” he tells us. “China isn’t just another coun