Rare footage of last Somerset and Dorset Railway trains

Rare footage of last Somerset and Dorset Railway trains 6 minutes ago. Steam trains. Dorset. Share. Save. British Broadcasting Corporation ...

'I cried when the railway shut - it was like a family'

It was like one big family," said Paul Antell, describing the community of a railway that ran through his village. It has ...

Final journey on railway remembered 60 years on

It has been 60 years since the final locomotive steamed along the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The line ran between Bath in Somerset and Bournemouth in Dorset, serving towns and villages such as ...

The daring bridge that rewrote the engineering rulebook 200 years ago

The Menai Strait Bridge in Wales was the world’s longest suspension bridge when it opened in 1826. It’s still going strong today, thanks to the revolutionary engineering behind it.