![The Festiniog Railway in Snowdonia circa 1900 [Source: Wikipedia]](http://www.ukseries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/festiniog-railway-snowdonia-460-wikipedia-150x150.jpg)
The Princess, the world’s first ever narrow-guage passenger train, has arrived at platform 9 of Paddington Railway Station in London for her 150th birthday and will remain there for the next 6 weeks. The train was built close to the station at the Hatcham Iron Works, 150 years ago and only just 34 years after [...]
![TSS Duke of Lancaster before the art works [Source: Wikipedia]](http://www.ukseries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/duke-of-lancaster-ship-150x150.jpg)
Art galleries seem to spring up in some unusual places, but one of the strangest if plans get the go-ahead will be on-board The Duke of Lancaster – a rusting former ferry off the North Wales coastline at Llanerch-y-Mor. Background: The ship used to be one of the finest ferries around and was regularly used [...]
The Evening Standard and Comic Relief have joined with Transport for London to create the Ride the Tube to work in your PJs day which will take place on March 15th. Announcing the plan today, transport commissioner Sir Peter Hendy who looks after London Underground, buses and overground trains urged the public to consider wearing [...]
![Mark Cavendish in the 2012 Tour de France [Source: Wikipedia]](http://www.ukseries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mark-cavendish-tourdefrance-460-wikipedia-150x150.jpg)
The start of the Tour de France in England might be well over a year from now, but Yorkshire has embraced the tour with open arms, and for very good reasons. The 2014 Tour de France will run 3 stages including the important first stage in England, with two being in Yorkshire and one being [...]
![Virgin Trains [Source: VisitBritain]](http://www.ukseries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/trains-virgin-at-station-150x150.jpg)
Train travel for anyone with a disability isn’t always easy, but there are a few official web sites out there which can significantly help. Each of these is either run by the rail companies or the government so provides more independent advice. Accessible stations: One of the first problems anyone with a disability is [...]
![View over the Orkney Islands [Source: VisitBritain]](http://www.ukseries.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/orkney-islands-460-visitbritain-150x150.jpg)
Scheduled flights between two of the Orkney Islands have been running since 1967 as an alternative to the ferry and at just 1 mile, the route is believed to be the shortest in the world. The scheduled airline flights run from the islands of Westray and Papa Westray and are run by regional airline Loganair [...]
On the morning of Thursday 10th January 2013 it will be exactly 150 years since the first steam trains chugged their way into the tunnels between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan Railway and into the history books. The London Underground was the worlds first ever underground railway system and on the first day it [...]
One thing London isn’t short of is bridges, but like any city built either side of a river, there always seems to be room for just one more. That is the hope of a company called One World Design who are seeking to build the Jubilee Footbridge linking Battersea and Chelsea Harbour next to the [...]
There’s an old saying – you wait ages for a bus then 3 come along at once, but in Oxford Circus this is more like 280 come along which is why the trolleybus might be the solution. London buses have been through a few changes over the years, but for the most part they all [...]
It can be easy to forget that Britain’s rail network isn’t just the West Coast and East Coast mainlines, but there are a-mass of smaller often private railways offering some of the most spectacular views you can witness. Here we’ll guide you through some of the best railway journeys you may never have taken, which [...]
