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Triarchos Eraklides, of Enfield, died in February last year just two months after being diagnosed with mesothelioma

In 2025 Britain is marking the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Many will be quick to celebrate the legacy of steam engines and the old red lion railway logo, but there’s one bit of Britain’s railway that perhaps doesn’t get enough praise – British Rail. Abbreviated to BR, the…

Renationalisation announced by shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, comes as most network contracts near expiry

‘Kenneth Grange: Designing the Modern World’ explores the life and work of the pioneering British industrial designer

Great British Railway Journeys season 15 on BBC2 sees politician-turned-presenter Michael Portillo explore Britain’s post-war history by train.

Exclusive: safety experts and a coroner made the request after a death in 1992, 30 years before Ukrainian refugee Albina Yevko died

How many people did DS Derek Ridgewell fit up? The sheer scale of his depravity, and his targeting of men of colour, is only now becoming clear

Brief letters: British Rail apology | Scarlet pimpernels | The gift of Guardian style | Superyacht design degree

In 1966 Asquith Xavier overturned a decision not to employ him as a guard at London’s Euston station because of his ethnicity.