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 ...
We take a close look at some of the world’s most iconic locomotives ...
A moment of history was witnessed by a lucky few at a landmark anniversary event at the UK's longest standard-gauge heritage ...
A heritage railway used as a location for The Traitors has bought a new locomotive. Aviemore-based Strathspey Railway has ...
The popular steam locomotive No. 76079 “Pocket Rocket,” long associated with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, has been sold to the ...
The well-loved locomotive ‘Pocket Rocket’ has been sold to a Scottish Railway by North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...
Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...