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Filmed on location across the UK, the one-time owner of the Flying Scotsman presents a four-part series examining the history of Britain's railways,...

Filmed on location across the UK, the one-time owner of the Flying Scotsman presents the second in a four-part series examining the history of...

The record producer looks at the crucial role the railway played during World War Two, transporting troops, carrying evacuated children to safety and...

The music producer concludes his four-part history of Britain's railways, focusing on the advent of diesel and electric services and the impact the...

Intercity 125 – Britain's own original high-speed train – rules the rails today, but this national icon is set to give way to hi-tech...

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the...

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system,...

The invention of trains transformed everything about how humans lived. From the movement of goods and population, the design of cities, to conquest...

Griff Rhys Jones explores Africa the unhurried way, as he takes to the continent’s railways to immerse himself in the joy and sometimes the...