Transport

On the evening of Sunday May 30 2009, Flight Air France 447 took off from

Fire on board a ship throws up a unique set of problems. Water is usually

Those who boarded the early train from Columbo on December 26 were heading south for

Southern Bangladesh and West Bengal occupy the world’s largest delta, where a heavily indented coastline

The south of Senegal is almost completely cut off from the north by the enclave

In 2002 the government of Tanzania was looking for a private buyer to take over

The night train from Cairo to Luxor was packed with people, many of them families

On November 12 2001 most of the passengers flying to the Dominican Republic from JFK

The iconic, supersonic aircraft Concorde was a remarkable engineering feat. Although no longer in service,

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, sometimes known as the Paddington train crash, occurred at 08.08

The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, or Highway 401, is the busiest freeway in North America. Starting just

In 1954 a national charter was ratified by the French and Italian governments for the

On a dark winter’s evening in 1951 a 52-strong company of the Royal Marines Volunteer

If a pilot heading into the lofty urban jungle of New York City on a

‘Strength through joy’ was the slogan of the state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. The

The evacuation of 340,000 beleaguered British and French troops from Dunkirk by early June 1940

Great Britain’s airship programme crashed and burned with the ill-fated R101, but others would be

During the early 20th century the first flying machines – hot air balloons used from