Railroads transformed the world. They stitched together cities and continents, turning once-distant destinations into reachable places. While their role in daily transportation has diminished in many ...

Scenic railways invite travelers to experience history, culture, and nature in perfect harmony, creating journeys full of ...

When the George Stephenson-designed railway opened in 1830, the station’s head honcho was given this house as his residence. The structure of the original station itself, the oldest passenger rail ...

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is one of the oldest railways in the United States. It began life as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road (B&J), which was incorporated in 1832 to serve a 10-mile ...

A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...

Through rich photographic and archival material, we travel back in time, on Railway from Athens to Piraeus (SAP), which was the first railway in Greece. We follow the Attica Railways through time, ...

It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...

This was not so much an expression of youthful adventure as a more prosaic instinct: it was about sounds and smells, machinery and timetables, gauges and networks and an ever-expanding glossary of ...

Did you know that Elvis once visited Central Florida on tour and learned how to waterski from a local family on Lake Butler? This is only one of the interesting, fun facts that can be gleaned during a ...