If you want to understand the past, look at the railways, writes the author of a new illustrated guide to British rail ...

Nuclear material travels without fanfare on our railways today, but as a little-known 1979 incident proves, it was once ...

UK: VolkerFitzpatrick has started to construct the first phase of the Radlett Strategic Rail Freight Interchange on behalf of ...

and the resulting prototype turbo-generator will replace the diesel engine in a redundant British Rail class 60 freight locomotive. It’s unclear whether it will incorporate a condenser ...

There was estimated to be around 200,000 ponies working in British ... A coal wagon running on rails being pulled by a horse, London Magazine, 1764. The first railways used horses to pull wagons ...

Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has introduced two new rail freight services between Dublin Port and Ballina, operated by International Warehousing and Transport (IWT).

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued an urgent safety advice notice regarding bridges with longitudinal ...

On 28 June this year, a freight train snaked into some railway ... burned in a British power station. By historic standards, the delivery was tiny: the 1,650 tonnes the train wagons spilled ...

To some, it feels like we've been talking about Great British Railways (GBR) - the government's attempt to overhaul and modernise the railways with a new public body to oversee them - for a long time.

Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF has awarded Convensa a €13·5m contact for track renewals of 76 km of the single-track ...

Why has there been a spate of accidents across railway zones? Will ‘Kavach’ coverage and overhauling of signalling systems ...

A freight train came ... derailment to hit Russia's railways. Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov posted on Telegram ...