Experts say more must be done to adapt to changing climate, after two trains derailed within 24 hours during a recent heatwave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images "The death knell of British railways" is commonly held to have been rung by Dr Beeching ...

The Aslef union has called the current system, which allows private firms to make big profits from leasing back trains to ...

Britain’s railways are “not fit for purpose” and “financially unsustainable”, the transport secretary has said. In the annual George Bradshaw Address in London on Tuesday, Mark Harper described the ...

For one train to derail is alarming. For two to do so on consecutive days suggests that Britain’s rail infrastructure is not ...

All successful privatizations are alike; each unsuccessful privatization is unsuccessful in its own way. The opposition Labour Party’s promise to bring Britain’s railways back into public ownership ...

What happens to railways in extreme heat? Steel expands when heated. Most of the network uses continuously welded rail: long lengths that are effectively restrained by the sleepers, fastenings and ...

A remarkable chapter in Britain’s fight against racial discrimination has been brought back into the spotlight, as a plaque ...

"The death knell of British railways" is commonly held to have been rung by Dr Beeching in 1963 but, surprisingly, at least one writer heard it as early as 1912, claiming that "motor cars must ...