I would give all my symphonies if I could have invented the locomotive,” said Antonín Dvořák. He had been a passionate ...

This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...

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