Opening five years after the first Tube services of the Metropolitan Railway, the line was built by the Metropolitan District Railway. The tunnels were made by digging a long trench, laying track and ...

Returning for its fourth year, this exciting festival showcases jazz, blues, roots, soul, funk, Latin, and Cuban music. This year’s headline acts include talented performers Gabrielle, Curtis Stigers ...

The water tower sits on the site of the York station frontage transformation project, part of a £25m scheme that aims to ...

Swindon and Cricklade Railway has welcomed families and train enthusiasts for their first steam train weekend of the season.

Vintage locomotive Clun Castle visited Worcester's Shrub Hill Railway Station today (April 6) as part of the Shakespeare Express. The Shakespeare Express travelled between Worcester and Birmingham and ...

Historic and vintage fire engines are among the standout displays at a special Leicester event next month. A series of ...

The talks in Doha come as the African Union nominates Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé as its new mediator.

A Grade II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson is to go on show at a museum. The bronze 8ft 10in (2.7m) statue ...

Passengers from Darlington, Durham, and Newcastle will have the chance to go on three sophisticated and high-class journeys on the Northern Belle.

The famous Waverley paddle steamer is making a historic return to Devon this summer. The last sea-going paddle steamer in the ...

Network Rail bosses have welcomed the approval of plans to convert the oldest surviving railway building in York into practice rooms for a ...

The closure of Cannock No 8 pit in 1962 marked the beginning of the end of mining in the Midlands. Hamstead Colliery, on the ...