Alongside painting rails, Network Rail also collaborates with specialist weather forecasters and local weather stations to ...

A global vote has unveiled a shortlist of the UK's best-loved railway artwork to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway.

On 1 May, the US artist Barbara Kruger will unveil a new work emblazoned across a Ukrainian passenger train. The new ...

Hundreds of Network Rail workers are painting railway lines to prevent "buckling" during the hot weather. Armed with brushes, rollers and around 1,500 litres of white paint, the workers are preparing ...

White paint helps reflect the sun’s rays and reduce ... and means it is not safe to run trains over them. Buckled rails caused by hot weather led to a total of more than 350,000 minutes of ...