Author: Tim Bryan

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats chan...

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its w...

Railway stations were a prominent feature of most towns and villages in Britain until post-war modernisation and closures swept many away. The lar...

The most glamorous trains run by railway companies were the high-speed expresses, linking the major towns, cities and holiday destinations. They in...

Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the ni...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel considered the Great Western Railway the finest work in England and he contributed many groundbreaking features, none so un...