Red, white and blue: the colours and lines of the union flag have been deployed as the logo for Great British Railways (GBR). This nationalised body will replace the current patchwork of mostly ...

The 6.14am service that runs each Sunday from London Waterloo station to Shepperton rarely carries many passengers. But this weekend, hundreds of rail enthusiasts will board that train, which meanders ...

The UK Government has revealed the new identity for Great British Railway, a milestone revival marking the transition towards a nationalised rail system. An evolution of the old British Rail that was ...

The U.K.’s new public railway is leaning on well-known, classic symbolism for its visual identity unveiled this month. Train liveries for the new brand will show a design of a stylized Union Jack flag ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The classic ‘double arrow’ symbol used on British Rail trains is now synonymous with the country’s train system. A logo (inset) ...

Two sites in Derby have been shortlisted to become the new headquarters of Great British Railways (GBR). The new public body ...

There was a time when to take a British rail journey was to receive a ticket barely changed since Victorian times — a small cardboard rectangle printed with the destination through which the inspector ...

Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

“This is the age of the train” was the British Rail catchphrase in the late 1970s, showcasing advances in technology, such as tilting trains, and advanced transport hubs, like the Euston station ...

As any tourist traveling on dilapidated trains to and from London would quickly discover, Britain’s domestic railway system has been in a state of slow decline ever since the sun set on the British ...