Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and the gardens

Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that’s also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.

Rediscovered lost masterpiece by Guercino going on display in Waddesdon Manor exhibition 

A recently rediscovered early masterpiece by the renowned Bolognese painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known as Guercino, will go on public display for the first time ever, as part of a historic exhibition at Waddesdon Manor this spring.

HS2 begins year-long, half-kilometre viaduct deck slide

HS2's engineers have started sliding nearly half a kilometre of bridge deck over a series of pylons to span a valley just to the south of Wendover.

Day trips from London: Visit the Tudor mansion at Dorney Court

A Tudor manor house built around a hall that dates from the Doomsday Book and is occasionally open to the public has confirmed its 2024 opening dates.

A Duo of Deans: Building HS2’s two Wendover railway viaducts

Just outside Wendover, two railway viaducts are being built for the HS2 railway, and they're the first of their kind in the UK.

HS2’s Thame Valley viaduct – taking a look at a waterlogged construction site

A landscape that, thanks to recent rainfall, is currently more lake than land is also the location for one of HS2's more innovative railway structures that's now under construction.

HS2’s Transformation: Building more than just a High-Speed railway near Aylesbury

Just outside Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, one of HS2's large construction sites is almost as busy building roads as it is building a railway.

It’s time to start booking your Heritage Open Day tours

For a couple of weeks in September, thousands of buildings across the UK, mostly outside London, are open to the public.

GWR celebrates 150 years of the Marlow Branch Line

Great Western Railway (GWR) is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Marlow Branch Line with a special livery on one of its trains.

Visit St Mary Magdalene’s church, Boveney

If you want to visit a postcard-pretty church in a small patch of a rural landscape, then St Mary Magdalene's, Boveney is the church for you.

Day trips from London: Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire

A Tudor manor house built around a hall that dates from the Doomsday Book and is only occasionally open to the public -- is open this month.

Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens

Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that’s also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.

TfL style contactless payments extended to Windsor and Henley

TfL style contactless touchpoints are arriving at Windsor and Eton station as contactless payments for train tickets, already valid on GWR and TfL Rail services between London Paddington and Reading are being extended onto the Henley and Windsor branch lines.

Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and gardens

Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that’s also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.

Dates for Dorney Court’s public open days confirmed

Not in London, but not far from it, is Dorney Court, a Tudor manor house that's only open to the public on a handful of days a year -- and the owners have confirmed when it will be open in 2022.

Disused tube station – Waddesdon Manor

In the middle of empty fields, a long way from London can be found the remains of a disused London Underground station.

Review – the Waddesdon Greenway e-bike hire scheme

If you happen to be visiting a grand mansion house, and arrive at Aylesbury Vale Parkway station, then there's a local electric bike hire scheme to get you the rest of the way. So I tried it out.

A day trip to – Waddesdon Manor

Not far outside London in the middle of the English countryside is a grand manor house that looks like it belongs in France.

A day trip to – Dorneywood House and gardens

Gifted to the nation for the use by a government minister, just outside London can be found a modest mansion that's also open to the public, but only for a couple of weeks a year.

Tickets Alert: Book a visit to Dorneywood House

A government mansion house in rural Buckinghamshire that's also right next to part of the City of London is having a number of open days in July.

Tickets Alert: Public tours of an HS2 archaeology site

It's a bit outside London, but there's a chance to visit a live archaeology site that's currently excavating a churchyard filled with around 3,000 dead people.

HS2 freight deliveries to a town without a railway station

The site, to the north of London, is an interesting one, as HS2 trains will pass right through the middle of a disused railway station.

Days out of London – High Wycombe

High Wycombe is a large town on the Oxford to London route which has been around for roughly 1,000 years, but for much of its time was quite a small village, until the 17th century when the paper industry arrived.

Day trips from London – West Wycombe & the Hellfire caves

A small picturesque village in the Chilterns famous for the deeds of its long time owner, and the notorious hellfire caves.