The boiler of 34058 Sir Fredrick Pile has joined that of 34010 Sidmouth at Tyseley. At the group’s site in Sellindge workers ...

The Bure Valley Railway has announced two visiting steam locomotives for its 35th Anniversary Gala. Samson and Winston ...

In 2025, the United Kingdom celebrates Railway 200, a massive public awareness campaign marking 200 years of railroading ...

An iconic steam engine was pictured in Carlisle over the weekend in the first of this year’s growing list of steam excursions ...

The Doncaster birthplace of some of the world’s most famous steam locomotives could be nearing the end of the line as fears ...

With this journey, Trevithick's steam engine (and its load from a mine) launched the rail era and changed the world. Two centuries on, the frenetic invention of the British rail engineers of the ...

To survive in the 21st century as a viable tourist attraction, Corris Railway needed a working steam locomotive to give ...

The wet steam, on the water issuing from the boiler, gives this minimum proportion. The apparatus to be fitted to the locomotive to admit of working counter-pressure steam as a brake, is as simple ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

The UK’s largest gathering of historic railway vehicles will take place in the summer to mark the 200th anniversary of the ...