It's 200 years this month since the birth of the modern railway, as celebrations gear up to mark the opening of the line between Stockton and Darlington to the public on September 27, 1825. Since ...

Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad. These “ghost trains” represented the peak of pop-up dark ...

As Britain’s railways transitioned from steam to diesel, not all change was mechanical. Some, it seems, was far more ...