Today marks 200 years since the world’s first passenger railway journey. On September 27, 1825, around 450 people made the 26-mile journey from Shildon to Stockton in the north-east of England on a ...

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How a world of “indigestion houses,” caste-segregated canteens, opulent rolling restaurants and Anglo-Indian inventions ...

GIVEN, a railway system which earns each year just about what it earned the year previous, while the capital charged against it is each year materially greater; how are dividends always to be paid at ...

Bure Valley Railway was opened by enthusiasts as an attraction in 1990 A heritage railway is celebrating its 35th anniversary by reuniting two locomotives to re-create the first journey made on its ...

A York-based furniture restoration firm has played a key role in reviving a piece of British railway history as part of a £11 million redevelopment project at the National Railway Museum (NRM). Andrew ...

08:11, Mon, Aug 4, 2025 Updated: 12:39, Mon, Aug 4, 2025 A locomotive launched to celebrate 200 years of the modern railwayhas taken to the train tracks. To mark the special anniversary, an Exhibition ...

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