It was the dawn of 1863, and London's not-yet-opened subway system - the first of its kind in the world - had the city in an uproar. Most people thought the project, which cost more than 100 million dollars in today's money, would never...

The ten longest railway tunnels in the world, inspired by Switzerland's recently completed tunnel which set a new record.

Simon Calder: More Rail and Tube strikes on the wayThe Independent

Welcome back to the Fluctus Canal for a journey through the sugarcane plantations of Indonesia on a rustic sugar train. Let’s explore the craftsmanship involved in maintaining these tireless railway machines.



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Semi-trucks are essential to delivering almost everything we use, but the trucking industry is outdated and inefficient. New technologies like electric and hydrogen-powered trucks, self-driving systems, and better software could make...

This video explores the fascinating history and thrilling evolution of roller coasters. From their humble beginnings on mining tracks to the mind-blowing heights and speeds of modern coasters, viewers will discover the exhilaration and...

Butler's Tourism Model can be applied to any tourist resort to show six key stages of development. Discover how Blackpool, in the UK, has progressed over the past few hundred years. And how it may be entering a new seventh phase. Human...

Guess What I Am while developing basic English reading skills.

Theodore Levitt's 1960 Harvard Business Review article, Marketing Myopia, is a landmark of the discipline. But Levitt is best known for the word Globalization. Rumors that he coined it are wrong, but he certainly gave it prominence in...

Financial speculation and bubbles​ are often of vital importance in fueling technological progress. Janeway reviews and distinguishes between various kinds of speculative bubbles over the past two centuries. While many have been...

North and South Korea will conduct a joint survey of North Korean railway lines to eventually link the two countries' railway systems.

JMW Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed illustrates the complexity of cultural change.

Why did Isambard Brunel name his ship after Great Britain? Because Kingdom was his middle name! I forgot to work that one into the script but couldn't let it go to waste. Beyond having a mouthful of a name, Isambard just seems to enhance...

Following the successful inter Korean summit, South Korea is now planning to build an extensive network that will connect the Korean Peninsula to Russia via rail.

Miranda Green tracks down the politicians who privatised Britain's railways, and speaks to key supporters of Jeremy Corbyn's plan for re-nationalisation.

After the American Civil War, the American South attempted a rebrand. But would it accept the progressive social and political changes of the Reconstruction Era?

Victorian Christmas part 2

The expansion of the railway system across the British Isles and the introduction of Bank holidays made it easier, cheaper, and quicker to travel to see friends and relatives during Christmas. Mass...

In this CSS typography tutorial, Mark reviews how to select fonts-- both web safe and fonts from Google fonts. Mark also reviews the primary CSS properties used to style type on the web. Accessibility recommendations are made to ensure...

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This clip is from the chapter "CSS Basics" of the series "Modern HTML and CSS from the Beginning (Including Sass)".In this Section, we’ll learn about CSS Basics.

Over a two-year period in the 1860s, infamous train robbers the Reno Gang stole the equivalent of $9 million dollars, until an act of vigilantism stopped them in their tracks.

A cheeky elephant crosses a railway track in Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary. The tuskless male elephant - called a Makhna - used its trunk to push up the crossing barrier, then ambled his way across the tracks before crushing the second...

Is it possible to hear a train coming by putting an ear to the rail track? Physics of why you can detect a train in the railway tracks from miles away.Sound is actually just a pressure wave a disturbance that's kind pushing to its...

Russia is reported to be building a new high-speed rail line that would take just 48 hours to travel from Moscow to Beijing, replacing the iconic Trans-siberian railway, according to reports cited by the International Business...