After more than 50 years of steam, diesel and electric adventures across the UK, one of the country’s most iconic special rail companies is about to make its final stop.

Two hundred years after the first passenger train rolled down the tracks, these iconic rail journeys still inspire awe and wonder.

Four people were injured and thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilled after an Amtrak train struck a semi-truck near Lompoc, authorities said.

On 27 September, 1825, the first passenger train departed on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The engine was stylishly named ‘Locomotion No. 1’ – the carriage disconcertingly named ‘Experiment’.

Michael Cox looks at how the passenger train has been fundamental to English football for almost two centuries ...

While the achievements of engineers like Isambard Kingdom Brunel and George Stephenson are known the world over, one of the most interesting was the last chief mechanical engineer of the Southern ...

As an engineering student in late 19th-century Bavaria, Rudolf Diesel found little promise in steam and internal combustion engines. The main issue, Diesel observed, was that the heat generated in the ...

Narrator: That's Mark Smith, a train travel enthusiast from the UK. Right now, he's waiting to board a train from Berlin to Warsaw, and we're joining him for this stretch of his journey across Europe.

More than 172 years after the British introduced railways to India, Aizawl, the capital city of the northeastern state of Mizoram, is set to get this mode of transportation and will join the vast ...

Queen Victoria herself was a great lover of trains and she would no doubt have been delighted that in 2025 Britain celebrates the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Stevenson and Queen Victoria ...