Original 1950s railway posters celebrating Britain's golden age of seaside package holidays are found in home of late elderly couple. ... Produced by British Railways, ... Most watched News videos.

After the train crash at Potters Bar, attention has again been focused on our beleaguered railways. The sorry state of the network can be traced back 50 years when the first plans to modernise fell ...

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Great British Railway Journeys. Series 14, Ep. 8/15 - Paddington to Ongar. Paddington to Ongar. ... Michael recalls the choking smogs which plagued the capital during the 1950s.

Railway bosses who own the UK's 'rolling stock' have existed since the Tories' controversial privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s – but is this system really working for every day Brits?

In a match made in vintage whimsy heaven, film director Wes Anderson has redesigned a 1950s-era carriage on the legendary Belmond British Pullman train that operates out of London’s Victoria ...

Kenyans tortured by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau uprising will receive payouts totalling £20m, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced. More than 5,000 Kenyans say they were ...

British railways' heroes and villains. Britain is rightly proud of inventing the railway and in the process has had its fair share of heroes who made it happen. However, ...

Hunter, a 45-year-old former railway worker originally from Colchester, Essex, England, has been sparking such time warps and cultural dislocations with increasing frequency for the past two years ...

Four elderly Kenyans who claim that they were severely beaten and tortured by British officers during an anti-colonial rebellion in the 1950s are taking their case to court.

It is 70 years since the era of public rail ownership began in Great Britain. The British Transport Commission formally took control of the operation and planning of the whole network, having been ...