The National Rail Museum is the UK’s national collection of significant railway vehicles and tells the story of rail transport in Britain. Starting with the invention of steam locomotives and the opening of the first freight and passenger railways it progresses...
Launched in March 1938, HMS Belfast saw active duty during World War II, playing a part in destroying the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst at the Battle of North Cape and in the Normandy landings. It also served the Royal Navy in Korea and was used in peacekeeping...
Back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, London saw ten new bridges built along the Thames to help cope with the increasing trade and traffic that came with the growing city. However, east of London Bridge there wasn’t a bridge despite the population that...
The Churchill War Rooms are where Churchill and the British High Command operated from during World War II. Right in the heart of Whitehall, unbeknownst to the Nazis, was the secret bunker that was making strategies and plans for the defence of the UK. Now part of...
Construction began on the Tower of London in 1066 by William the Conqueror as a means to keep hostile Londoners at bay, and since then it has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of London. Over the past 1000 years it has been a prison, with its most famous inmates...
Most visitors to London will travel on the tube, whether the larger sub-surface lines or the more cramped deep-level lines that give the system its tube nickname. But did you know there is an even smaller underground railway in London? One that was used purely for...
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