The improved 260m-long platform 4 can now manage around ten carriage intercity trains. Credit: Network Rail. The UK’s Network Rail, in partnership with Transport for Wales, has executed major ...

This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...

This is the moment when rail passengers looked out to see a herd of cows trotting down a platform in south Wales. Services ...

The Orient Express, the Trans-Siberian Railway or even the Hogwarts Express. Every train journey in history can trace its origins back to one humble railway by the seaside. It may not have felt like ...