Fleetstreet legend and Mirror columnist, Paul Routledge, sends gentle tales from his West Yorkshire allotment, Mrs R’s pantry ...

and the resulting prototype turbo-generator will replace the diesel engine in a redundant British Rail class 60 freight locomotive. It’s unclear whether it will incorporate a condenser ...

A side-by-side comparison of the archive image and the team’s recreation work with the model railway Making Britain’s Deadliest Rail Disaster: Quintinshill, we were faced with a problem ...

The rail operator's on-board WiFi will now block ... emissions Northern is one of the largest train operators in the UK, second only to FirstGroup plc, which operates Great Western Railway.

High speed trains (HST) were the future of British Rail in the 1970s, with advertisements promising unheard of speeds and shorter journey times. Better known as the InterCity 125, the diesel ...

He told the BBC that many return tickets cost only slightly more than a single because about 30 years ago British Rail introduced saver return tickets to encourage people to travel further for longer.

How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS ...

It also largely sidesteps the Thatcher years – an era that unwittingly mobilised a generation of working-class photographers. While Thatcherism understandably resurfaces in many conversations about ...

Does the traditional British class system really exist anymore? Does social class even matter in 21st century Britain? The Great British Class Survey aims to find out.

But he doesn’t mind. While the public was to gradually fall out of love with British Rail as an organisation, its double arrow logo carried on, quietly working away as a beautifully simple and ...

Commuters who connected to a Wi-Fi service at stations for Network Rail, Britain’s national rail operator, were met with “Islamophobic messaging,” according to the British Transport Police ...