Jack Hayward, who has lived in the Wiltshire town for most of his life, says the 150-year-old "Great Wall of Swindon" represents the "struggles of generations of families". He said the area around the ...

Art lovers in Oxfordshire are being invited to choose their favourite UK railway-themed artworks. This is part of a celebration marking 200 years of the modern railway.

A huge train of locomotives and carriages weighing 200 tons would test the strength of the bridge. It became just the second ...

During the 1970s and 1980s, this sprawling Victorian pub was renamed The Pecketts Flyer after the Bristol-based locomotive engineers Peckett & Sons, Ltd. But this former railway hotel has gone back to ...

Featuring a whopping 20 viaducts, 14 tunnels, and a breathtaking vista that comes out rain or shine - the Settle to Carlisle Railway attracts ... A stunning piece of Victorian engineering, this ...

Push-pull diesel trains have not run on the Corfe Castle to Swanage line since 1971. The Spa Valley Railway needs £300,000 to replace a Victorian bridge which has become badly corroded. The Flying ...

The book illustrates scenes from the largest region of British Railways when Victorian-era steam locomotives rubbed shoulders ...

“With the Swanage Railway Trust having restored a unique Victorian T3 steam locomotive from the 1890s, the restoration of a 1960s TC ‘push-pull’ train will enable the Swanage Railway to tell ...