Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

Labour’s plans to nationalise the railways threaten to undermine passenger safety, the industry watchdog has warned.

Surveys suggest lots of people want to renationalise the railways. Callum Chapman via Unsplash, CC BY The UK government has announced that it will take control of the failing East Coast train line.

Though the real culprit behind the deadly Quintinshill train collision may not be so easy to determine.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The classic ‘double arrow’ symbol used on British Rail trains is now synonymous with the country’s train system. A logo (inset) ...

There was a time when to take a British rail journey was to receive a ticket barely changed since Victorian times — a small cardboard rectangle printed with the destination through which the inspector ...

Britain’s railways are “not fit for purpose” and “financially unsustainable”, the transport secretary has said. In the annual George Bradshaw Address in London on Tuesday, Mark Harper described the ...

Although we take them for granted, our railway stations showcase some of Britain’s finest architectural and engineering ...