Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A record 370,000 train services across the UK were fully or partly cancelled in 2024 – 4pc of the service - James Manning/PA ...

Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. In the early 1840s, Queen ...

The train's door system apparently failed to detect the trapped hand, and the driver remained unaware before accelerating.

Last month’s announcement that the government will scrap phase two of the HS2 rail project, set to run from the West Midlands to Manchester, felt like another nail in the coffin for Britain’s ...

Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want ...

In a bid to tackle a looming workforce shortage, 18-year-olds will soon be permitted to operate trains in the UK. The UK government is lowering the minimum train driver age from 20 to 18, with ...

(CNN) — In the early 1840s, Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by train in her own dedicated royal saloons, but more than 180 years later, King Charles III looks set to oversee ...