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Driving in Britain

Driving in Britain is not difficult, but it is different in enough ways to catch visitors out. The left-hand side…

Britain invented the passenger railway, and has been complaining about it ever since. The Stockton and Darlington opened in 1825…

The Oyster card is a blue plastic smartcard introduced in 2003 to replace paper tickets on London transport. It works…

The London black cab is a purpose-built vehicle driven by someone who has spent years memorising the city. It is…

The red double decker is, after the flag and the phone box, the most exported image of Britain. It is…

The Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world, opened in 1863 when the trains were pulled by steam…