Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern, so why not a third?

A steam train driver on the Great Central Railway has retired after 55 years of life on the footplate. David Thompson is now ...

"Originally there were just the tracks in as British Rail had stopped using it as a goods yard. Then all of a sudden the tracks moved as British Rail took them up. "So then there was just this ...

"We're long enough in the tooth" to remember that passenger journeys declined by 33% under British Rail, they wrote. Instead, Britain should seek to have the "best of both worlds", with a public ...

British Rail sent all the retired steam engines to scrap merchants around the country. Several went to a scrap yard in south ...