The Booker Prize finalist's latest novel pays homage to the blood and guts that were spilled during railway construction.

And I feel, equally ardently, that Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks deserves a shedload of such accolades. Songsmiths often deny their work is autobiographical. Paul McCartney has long been ...

At a stop along the way, one of the PM’s rivals clambered across the tracks to his carriage ... Huskisson was crushed — a blood-spattered asterisk on the history of mechanized transport.