It’s interesting then to hear of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered for revenue freight use on British metals. Is it yet another rebuild of a heritage design to be used for ...

There were already eight steam paddlers on the Shannon and two in Lough Neagh - and it was from there, the largest lake in the British Isles, that the first steamboat came to Fermanagh.

The tug is said to have cost £3,000 and has been described as 'the first practical British steamboat'. The U.S. engineer Robert Fulton developed the world's first commercially successful ...