Ramblers, cyclists, stargazers, and history buffs will all find lots to love in the southwestern corner of Scotland.

Peter Heath’s family launches a fundraiser to restore The Countess steam locomotive at Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway after his death on September 29.

LEAVE it to the Americans to come up with a name for gawping at trees. Leaf peeping was a phrase coined in the Sixties in ...

This English riverside town has ornate old factories and steam train journeys, while a nearby wildlife attraction offers ...

Karen Gillan praises Henry Cavill’s “bang on” Scottish accent in Highlander and says he even corrected Gaelic pronunciation ...

Everything we have written about Britain by rail — the great Victorian stations, the Flying Scotsman and the heritage lines, the Caledonian Sleeper, and how to use a BritRail Pass to see the country ...

A wooden sculpture to commemorate the thousands of navvies who built the Fort William-Mallaig line since beloved by Harry Potter fans has been carved from a tree stump to mark its 125th anniversary.

Network Rail looking at cost-effective upgrade which could lead to 38-mile single track section south of Girvan.

Most travel is about arriving. A few railways, though, were built through such difficult country that the ride itself became ...

The stalwart Scillonian III ferry, which connects Penzance to the Isles of Scilly and is renowned for offering a bumpy ride, will soon retire after nearly 50 years in service. The ship, built in Devon ...

In September 1961 The Scotsman newspaper broke the news that Edinburgh’s remaining suburban rail services were under threat, and formal closure proposals soon followed, with the Leith North line (the ...

In 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train. In 1938, Queen Elizabeth christened the world's largest ocean liner with her own name during a ceremony ...