In 1909, a hilarious complaint letter by Okhil Chandra Sen forced Railways to add toilets to trains. Here’s the unbelievable ...

It is a significant weekend for railway enthusiasts across Britain. Celebrations are taking place to mark 200 years since "the birth of the modern railway" - the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 ...

Britain’s first railway transformed the way people and goods moved forever. In this video, Guy Martin explores the history, ...

It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...

When the George Stephenson-designed railway opened in 1830, the station’s head honcho was given this house as his residence. The structure of the original station itself, the oldest passenger rail ...

Feral Interactive recently brought the iconic game "Sid Meier's Railroads!" to iOS. It's a fun way to learn railway history, although some controls are challenging. Sid Meier's Railroads! is a ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

Atlanta exists because of the railroad. A newly-gifted railroad archive will help tell the story of Atlanta. In 1836 the state of Georgia decided to build the Western & Atlantic railroad to link ...

The aroma of aged wood and the feel of burnished metal on some of the oldest trains to the modern shinkansen, or bullet trains, awaits visitors to a unique experience in Nagoya, Japan. The train ...

The National Railway Museum has completed a £10.5m refurbishment of its historic Station Hall gallery. After two years of closure, the Grade II-listed building has reopened in time for the York museum ...

Chris Morrill volunteers on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire, helping to maintain the 22 miles of track [BBC/Seb Cheer] It is a significant weekend for railway enthusiasts across Britain.