Rapid transit was born in the United Kingdom, with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in 1863, followed by lines in ...

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 ...

By Andy Bruce MANCHESTER, England, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday committed to a new rail infrastructure programme ...

Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

As any tourist traveling on dilapidated trains to and from London would quickly discover, Britain’s domestic railway system has been in a state of slow decline ever since the sun set on the British ...

The Great British Railways has a great British brand. The U.K.’s new public railway is leaning on well-known, classic symbolism for its visual identity unveiled this month. Train liveries for the new ...

It is set to be a year of change for train services in the West of England. From Great Western Railway (GWR) returning to public ownership to work beginning on the long-awaited Portishead line - what ...

At the 'Train Zero' lab in the United Kingdom, engineers test systems like signal and speed using simulation. View on ...

A railway station has earned the title of the UK's most deserted, with a mere 68 people passing through in an entire year.

Exercise and healthy eating might be the usual recipe for long life but for Frank Paterson of York it’s train travel that keeps him young. It helps that he has a “gold pass,” which, since he retired ...