The first 2-8-2s were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Work for Japan's narrow-gauged Nippon Railway in 1897 ... the Great ...

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 ...

The railways ... steam locomotives. They were produced in Poland’s first state locomotive factory, Fablok, in Chrzanów, according to a new Polish design – which modified and streamlined the Austrian ...

It will also see Swanage Railway run night-time passenger trains for the first time. They will travel in the early hours of Sunday morning in a re-creation of the night steam trains from the days ...

Eighty of the Grange class of locomotives were initially made before production stopped in 1939 due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Gloucester Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR), which is ...

Steam locomotives haul regular timetabled passenger trains the whole year round on a state-owned railway system. Such sights have disappeared in every other corner of the world, but not yet from ...

Genesee & Wyoming’s Ohio Central Railroad has donated a diesel locomotive, GE B23-7R No. 4092, to the Age of Steam Roundhouse ...

As part of the Halloween celebrations, The Watercress Line's Wizard Week will feature something for all the family.

The arrival of the railways revolutionised life in Britain. The growing rail network opened up the possibility of fast travel across the whole nation and it provided an efficient way of ...

The Oregon Rail Heritage Center’s newest steam locomotive the Mount Emily Shay #1 is on display for the first time since the ...

The chairman of a County Down heritage railway has said the team of volunteers are “heartbroken” after damage was caused to three vintage steam-hauled carriages. The Downpatrick and County ...