Transport secretary Grant Shapps has called for some 'beechinged' lines to be reopened - but which ones?
Reopening a closed railway line is expensive and...
Refurbishment of a historic railway footbridge has been completed at New Mills Newtown station in the Derbyshire Peak District.
The stairs and overbridge were strengthened...
A National Lottery grant of £853,800 to repair the Falling Sands Viaduct in Kidderminster will "safeguard" Severn Valley Railway's (SVR) future.
Director Shelagh Paterson...
Visitors to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) are now able to donate using contactless donation boxes.
The first machine has been placed at Pickering...
A records assistant at Network Rail's archive in York has stumbled across a notebook with George Stephenson's plans for the world's first locomotive-driven passenger...
London Underground's Victoria line is celebrating its 50th birthday with a series of special events along the route.
The first phase of the line between...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage Rail (APPGHR) wants the law changing to legally allow under 16s to volunteer on heritage railways.
APPGHR describes the Employment...
Archaeologists have been able to determine the age of a footpath which was uncovered in Birmingham’s Victoria Square during works to extend the Midland...
Victorian Britain witnessed the creation of a 20,000 route mile national railway network, of which about 10,000 route miles remain today as an operational...
The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York has unveiled its new identity at a special event.
Bringing together the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman, the electro-diesel...
The country's first-ever second generation electric multiple unit (EMU) has been painted in its original blue and grey British Rail livery.
Train 313201, which operates...
Heritage Lottery will no longer be giving the Great Central Railway more than £9.5 million to build a new museum in Leicestershire.
Plans for the new...
