Peers have asked ministers to tweak a 105-year-old law to let young people work on heritage railways, before there is “no-one” with a memory of steam trains on main lines. Labour’s Lord Faulkner of ...

Peers have asked ministers to tweak a 105-year-old law to let young people work on heritage railways, before there is “no-one” with a memory of steam trains on main lines.

That view obscures how hard, dirty and dangerous working on the railways was for many people. Narratives about the railways' past should challenge people - and acknowledge the difficult bits. This ...

The regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), published a report which found travellers face ‘inconsistent treatment and outcomes’.

In celebration of Railway 200, the 200th anniversary of the modern railway, Waverley will connect with three steam railways, the West Somerset, the Brecon Mountain, and Lynton & Barnstable railways.

Locomotion No.1 was built by Robert Stephenson and Company, a Newcastle-based firm named after the son of "father of the railways" George Stephenson The first steam locomotive to haul a passenger ...