Indeed, it might be considered one of the most notable rail deaths of all time. A prominent MP was killed at the opening of a ...

An old railway pub and a former coastal radar bunker are among 12 North East sites to be newly listed in 2023 as local places of historic interest. The 1820s Railway Tavern in Darlington and World ...

A long-forgotten time capsule at West Point recently discovered inside the base of a monument and believed to have been left by cadets in the late 1820s is expected to be pried open Monday.

The late poet and railway enthusiast Sir John Betjeman is having a train named after him. But how do trains normally get names? What have Michael Palin, Dr Who, Lady Penelope and Brookside got in ...

Conditions on the ground, however, were symbolic of problems that Americans would face in Liberia in the 1820s and would lead them to separate themselves from the people among whom they had settled.

1820s 'best decade for British innovation' The 1820s was the most productive period for British invention with the development of cement, the electric motor and the lawnmower, according to a new poll.

The first white Americans to settle in the Islands arrived in the 1820s intent on Christianizing aboriginal Hawaiians; they soon decided it was the Lord's will that they husband the Hawaiian lands ...

Historically, railways have always stood high among the ties that bind us together. When the CPR made it all the way to British Columbia, Canada became a nation — united by steel and common ...