Launched in 1929 to connect the far-flung cities of Darwin and Adelaide, Australia’s weekly sleeper train, The Ghan is one of the truly great railway journeys and takes travellers deep into the heart ...

Michael Portillo embarks on a Scandinavian railway ... journeys in the world: the Bergen Line and the Flam Railway. In Bergen, Michael investigates how Norway, which has gained great wealth ...

Leicestershire's Great Central Railway (GCR) is to offer a tantalising glimpse of its long hoped-for 'reunification' with a section of the historic line in neighbouring Nottinghamshire. The service ...

Michael Portillo has been making his remarkably popular Great Railway Journeys at home and abroad for 15 years. And as unlikely as his sartorial colour combinations is the route he has travelled from ...

A scene on the Great Central Railway // Credit: Cameron White At a joint event on Saturday, 5, and Sunday, April 6, the two halves of the Great Central Railway (GCR) will show visitors the progress ...

March the 13th, 2024 – The BBC has been uncovering the charms of slow travel on Croatian railways as part of its popular Great Continental Railway Journeys series. Anyone who has travelled by train in ...

Asia is home to some spectacular railway journeys, which remain largely unexplored by travelers. The routes allow one to witness the continent's rich landscapes and cultures, from a whole new ...

Credit: FirstGroup. UK-based train operating company Great Western Railway (GWR) has announced the introduction of 26 Class 175 trains to its fleet, aiming to enhance punctuality across its network.

“Even [with inflation] at 2 per cent, that for Japanese households is a shock.” Japan’s great inflection is happening under an extraordinary confluence of pressures. Geopolitics have pushed ...

Great Continental Railway Journeys, 6.30pm, BBC Two Former Tory ... the communist president of Yugoslavia until his death in 1980. Is Greenland for Sale? 7.00pm, BBC Two US president Donald ...