Built in 1872, Fenchurch was one of the Terrier tank engines used on the Weston, Clevedon, and Portishead Light Railway. These engines were known for their high power despite their small size and were ...

The Battle of Britain class steam locomotive 34067, also known as Tangmere, was pictured at Carlisle railway station this year. This locomotive was introduced in 1945 by the Southern Railway and is ...

It is dubbed The Lion, and it is one of just four showman’s road locomotives built back in the 1930s by British-based John Fowler & Co. At a Bonhams auction held last week, the contraption was ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

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 ...

A fleet of famous locomotives are lining up at Darlington's Hopetown museum, ahead of a two-week Titans of Steam festival. As part of this year's Stockton and Darlington Railway 200th anniversary ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten ...

Though we’re currently in the thrall of another, newer mode of transport—the relatively cheap, small and free-ranging “car”—trains rolls right alongside Conestoga wagons as the vehicles that made ...

Iconic steam locomotives will be among the highlights when the popular Autumn Steam Gala returns to The Watercress Line in ...