There was a time when to take a British rail journey was to receive a ticket barely changed since Victorian times — a small cardboard rectangle printed with the destination through which the inspector ...

Earlier this year, the UK’s Urban Transport Group published a new report assessing the benefits of greater devolution to local authorities for the country’s railway stations. The report comes at a ...

Train travel was once the epitome of elegance. Now it’s more associated with busy morning commutes. Has the romance of the railway been lost forever? Not according to a London-based couple whose ...

Since the UK’s railways were privatised in 1997, Virgin Rail has been running the country’s West Coast mainline connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. This week, that train line passed ...

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