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 ...

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, featuring Japanese Shinkansen technology, aims to reduce travel time to two hours.

The improvement in the application of counter-pressure steam which gave rise to the work, we consider the greatest advance made in railway engineering since Stephenson demonstrated that a train ...

Steam trains are a big part of British rail history ... lower maintenance costs and weight saving measures to enable it to work across a wider geography. Britannia has two cylinders, six driving ...

In this collection of television and radio programmes, we celebrate the craftsmanship inherent in steam trains and the beauty of the British countryside through which these locomotives have passed.

A vintage steam engine has been helping mark a railway ... Operations manager Keith Herbert said the work would help "keep the La'al Ratty alive". The line connects the Lake District National ...

As a 2-8-4 with the four driving axles in its centre sporting connecting rods, it resembled a steam locomotive from the chassis downwards but with a very diesel-age cab and superstructure.

Andrew PM Wright Billy Johnson has volunteered for Swanage Railway for 15 years Swanage Railway Trust's T3 class steam locomotive No. 563 blew its whistle as it left Swanage station, driven by ...

It has been 50 years since steam trains trundled along a miniature railway ... It will be staffed by volunteers. Work has already started on clearing ground for the railway Local business owners ...

2141 steam locomotive. Simultaneously, focused work began on a business plan that would guide the society through a ...