The event, which is part of the National Railway 200 celebrations, will feature three steam locomotives and one diesel ...

Great Central Railway A steam train driver on the Great Central Railway has retired after 55 years of life on the footplate.

Next weekend in January, the Swanage Railway is to hold a ‘Winter Warm Up’ weekend starring four historic locomotives from ...

If you were to visit a railway ... in the early 1960s. The film below the break is a fascinating window into the early part of the UK’s transitional period away from steam traction, with the ...

During the final decades of steam locomotive operation on British Railways keen amateur photographers captured fascinating footage of the end of an era This programme brings you some of these ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast ... of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered for revenue freight use on British metals.

Built in 2008, the Tornado is the first mainline steam engine to be built in the UK since the 1960s. It set off from ... Tony Miles, of Modern Railways Magazine, said the train was a "one off ...