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 ...

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 ...

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.

Steam trains were one of the most powerful vehicles of their time, capable of pulling hundreds of cars in one go. Their sheer ...

A new steam locomotive has been launched in Sussex. The Bluebell Railway has welcomed the LB&SCR Marsh Brighton Atlantic 32424 locomotive - named ‘Beachy Head’ - that has been more than two ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW’s long-delayed project to deliver new intercity trains is set to miss a secret target date for first passenger services on ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Ed Young/BBC Andy England, managing director at CTL Seal, said the firm usually worked with "the renewable market, the oil and gas, nuclear" As part of a modernisation program, steam locomotives ...

The locomotive used for the project was bought from a scrapyard in the 1980s A charity working to restore a 1918 steam locomotive has been awarded a £151,200 grant to develop volunteer's heritage ...

RED BAY, Ala. (WHNT) — After a few delays, the 1923 steam locomotive engine #3 will finally be unloaded in Alabama. The Red ...