Mail on Sunday

Pity the poor passengers on the train line from hell. For decades commuters on the Brighton-Bedford “Thameslink” railway through central London, have endured travelling conditions that would be illegal for the transport of animals. With its packed, ageing carriages and appalling delays, plans for modernisation are running 15 years late. Now the prospect of getting […]

Close your eyes and imagine yourself on the perfect railway journey of your dreams. It is lunchtime and we are travelling through some of England’s loveliest countryside in a commodious carriage where the armchairs are soft and the wide windows offer gorgeous views – in this case over the ‘blue remembered hills’ of A. E.