There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

A HISTORIC mainline steam locomotive that headed the last British Rail steam train 50 years ago is to haul passenger trains again in Purbeck. Built in 1945, the powerful 74-ton London Midland and ...

The first steam locomotive to be built from scratch in Britain in almost half a century made its maiden journey last week - a gentle 120-yard chug at a Darlington railway yard. The 62ft, 170-ton train ...

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

THEY were rescued from a docklands graveyard – now work has begun on a major project to restore historic locomotives. The steam locomotives, known as the “Barry 10”, were rescued from the scrapyard of ...

A Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado steam locomotive has become the first railway vehicle of its kind to operate with Hitachi Rail’s European Train Control System (ETCS). Hitachi Rail's ETCS ...

The grandson of the man who designed the world's fastest steam locomotive said seeing it reunited with its five surviving sister engines, exactly 75 years after it set its ubroken speed record, has ...

A heritage railway in Dorset has cancelled its autumn steam gala "with much regret". Swanage Railway said the event could not go ahead "due to a combination of unforeseen circumstances and the last ...

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