Kicking off a new series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the UK’s passenger railways, curator Steven Foxon offers a whistle-stop tour of the long-running love affair between cinema and trains, ...

Michael Portillo begins his new series – modestly titled Michael Portillo’s 200 Years of the Railways – standing atop the first British train, Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 (well, a working replica), ...

The Tyne and Wear Metro's new Stadler train fleet was featured in the premiere episode of Michael Portillo’s BBC Two series ...

Last month’s announcement that the government will scrap phase two of the HS2 rail project, set to run from the West Midlands to Manchester, felt like another nail in the coffin for Britain’s ...