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Despite gloomy predictions about the railways, Turner's Rain Steam and Speed used an optimistic painterly language to depict the new mode of travel.

At the time of her construction, the SS Great Britain was the largest ship in the world. Today, it rests as a floating museum in Bristol Harbour.

During World War I, the British railway network was placed under the command of the Railway Operation Division of the British War Office.

Brunel not only developed a railway but also steamships, bridges and tunnels. His celebrated works and his contribution to engineering are still highly regarded today.

The fascinating and watery beauty of rain transforms works by artists Gustave Caillebotte, Hiroshige, J.M.W. Turner and Franz Marc.

England is one of the countries that form the United Kingdom, sharing borders with Wales and Scotland. The capital city of England is London.

A standard gauge railway, 5 inch gauge railway, the highest station in England, ducks to feed, special events and a collection of miners lamps well-worth a day trip.

Red Wing, Minnesota is a historic town along the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota. Here are its top tourist attractions.

Double Gloucester cheese eating and cheese rolling competitions, chocolate making and nostalgic steam train dining all make Gloucestershire a wonderful county to visit.

Chelsea is a perennial powerhouse in the Premier League. However their meager beginning solidified their later history.

Atkinson Grimshaw is remembered for moonlit cityscapes. His works represent contradictions between Victorian industrialisation and a Romantic longing for times past.

Jackson Pollock claimed that contemporary artists did not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves for inspiration. What outside forces lay behind this claim?

Inspired by the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution John Martin was famous for his vast canvases showing humanity dwarfed by the awesome power of wild nature.

The distance between each rail of a train track is the most basic design decision: setting the benchmark for rolling stock, infrastructure, signalling and loading gauge.