It's 200 years since George Stephenson climbed into the cab of the aptly named Locomotion No. 1 and took 600 passengers on a ...

A temperature of 29.1C has been provisionally recorded in Surrey, after the record for warmest start to May was recorded in ...

That’s significant because it would be the earliest date in the year the UK has recorded 30C since records began in 1860. For ...

Island nations are exposed to all manner of intriguing customs, cuisines and cultural quirks. They can also wind up with some ...

The Phantom of the Opera,” an intriguing story of a mysterious masked man haunting the Paris Opera House, has been a beloved ...

Now a single Tube route, the Northern line’s origins lie in two separate early underground railways. The first to be built was the City & South London Railway, which was also the first electric ...

London is very different from the rest of the ... There is a calming effect to knowing that if you miss you're underground train, there is another in two minutes; you feel invincible.

Guide Des Garraham takes readers on a walk from Gospel Oak to Camley Street following the course of London's hidden River Fleet.

Reading about Feiffer and Crumb made me think of another set of underground comics, ones that also present a world of unrestrained, gleeful havoc, though from a very different perspective—Diane ...

Officials at Cincinnati's Freedom Center learned last week that the history they tell about the Underground Railroad conflicts with a revised version favored by the Trump administration.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The majority of planned works on London’s transport network are carried out over the weekend to avoid the peak rush hour. And this work to keep the capital moving doesn’t stop even on the ...