At first glance, Charwelton does not look like the sort of place where you might expect to find a significant piece of ...

Hidden beneath the town of Devizes, a 150-year-old Brunel railway tunnel has found a remarkable second life as a ballistic testing facility, where bulletproof glass, armoured plates, and body armour ...

When britain’s railways were nationalised for the first time, in 1948, politicians steamed. Conservative peers called it “a most ghastly mistake” and “by far the biggest measure of Socialism which had ...

The experience of walking a workig railway tunnel. Image (C) Tim Sandle. The experience of walking a workig railway tunnel. Image (C) Tim Sandle. Buried underneath the River Thames is the world’s ...

Paul and Rebecca trace the full story of Portland's remarkable transport history, from the Victorian branch line that took 12 years to blast through solid rock, to the ancient quarry tramways that ...

Although we take them for granted, our railway stations showcase some of Britain’s finest architectural and engineering achievements. As the 19th-century railway boom gathered p ...

Rob Bell seeks out the lost railway from Elgin to Portsoy, a line which served the fishing and whisky industries so vital to the local communities. The track bed to the 'Scottish Riviera' of ...