A new exhibition celebrates the achievements of railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley, whose Flying Scotsman and Mallard ...

The Azuma train left the city at lunchtime and was met in Darlington by Mallard's sister locomotive, Flying Scotsman. Modelled on the Japanese bullet train, the Azuma runs on the East Coast Main ...

Flying Scotsman was one of the stars of the show ... Meanwhile, the Gresley-designed and Doncaster-built Mallard hit 126mph (203km/h) in 1938, breaking the world speed record for a steam locomotive.

Locomotives are the mighty machines that make trains go! From the earliest steam engines puffing smoke to today’s super-speedy electric trains, locomotives have been powering railways for over 200 ...

Why is Flying Scotsman so famous? In 1862, when the East Coast route to Scotland was still young, Walter Leith of the Great Northern Railway had an idea. Why not run a through train from London to ...

This book describes many memorable sights to be seen from the train during a journey along the East Coast Main Line from King ...