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, ...

Crowds turned out to watch a replica of a historic steam engine cross the oldest railway bridge still in use for trains in the world. Locomotion No 1 is recreating the first British passenger rail ...

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 ...

On Monday, April 21, host Michael Portillo's tour of the county where he visited Shrewsbury and Telford, and met a grandfather, father and son who have dedicated time towards restoring a 1959 diesel ...

Passenger train service in Oneonta had ended only a few years earlier, and it had been much longer since anyone had seen a steam locomotive engine running on the rails in our area. That might explain ...

After World War II, the low price of domestic coal meant steam trains continued to operate in the UK for two decades. But when the price of oil started to fall in the 1960s, and so-called ...