Strathclyde Partnership for Travel fitted more than 100 dampers on its new trains, which gradually replaced the old carriages last year, after passengers said they were too unstable and noisy.

You can see a portion of the platform, as well as the curve of the old roof, from Finchley Road. Here are five abandoned train stations around the world that are now hotels.

Journeys are now far more comfortable than in past years, when travellers often crammed into train carriages for trips that could last days – if they were fortunate enough to buy a ticket ...

Journeys are now far more comfortable than in past years, when travellers often crammed into train carriages for trips that could last days – if they were fortunate enough to buy a ticket, which are ...

A headless marble statue, believed to be over 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. Dating to the Hellenistic era (320–30 BC), it was discovered by a ...