An iconic British steam train featured in Paddington 2 and Top Gear has become the first ever to be 'future-proofed' amid a wider plot to remove much-loved traditional traffic signals. The changes, ...

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 places, but ...

LONDON – Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age. On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam ...

As well as being somewhat of a wunderkind in the 009 gauge railway modelling community, he has always loved steam trains.

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We take a look back to the 'Golden age of steam' when the likes of GWR, Great Western Railway, also know as 'God's Wonderful Railway', would thunder through Birmingham. Back in the day there was a ...

A HISTORIC mainline steam locomotive that headed the last British Rail steam train 50 years ago is to haul passenger trains again in Purbeck. Built in 1945, the powerful 74-ton London Midland and ...