A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...
When the first train in India set off in 1853 from Bombay to Thane, pulled by three steam locomotives named Sahib, Sindh and Sultan, it covered just 34 km but ignited a transport revolution. In the ...
It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...
Railways have been a popular method of transport since the 18th century (and have been around even longer than that). In this three-part programme, presenter Dan Snow demonstrates how the early rail ...
In the early nineteenth century, engineers discovered that steam power and iron rails could be combined to move people and goods faster than any horse or ox could. Within a few decades, railways had ...
A devastating rail crash that left almost 300 people dead has refocused international attention on the importance of railways in the lives of Indians. Indeed, to many Western observers, images of men ...
A Pan Am Railways locomotive and two Guilford Rail System locomotives are at the head of a train heading northbound along the Bangor waterfront on a February afternoon. Credit: Brian Swartz / BDN Pan ...
Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Dan Snow traces the development ...
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