Steam rail holidays: How breathing in the nostalgic whiff of coal lifted my Harz. By FRANK BARRETT Updated: 04:53 EDT, 8 June 2009 ...

A rail enthusiast finds much to enjoy on this sociable journey that includes stays at hotels, singalongs and stops in cobbled cities ...

The Trans-Harz railway is the last non-heritage steam network in the world. Untouched for decades by the East German government, it has become a magnet for rail enthusiasts.

Steam locomotive travel started in 1804 — the first intercity train line in Germany began in 1839 between Dresden and Leipzig, less than 100 miles away — and lasted into the 1950s — and well ...

Perhaps the Prussian workmen building G 8 steam trains at the turn of the 20th century saw them for what they were – symbols of Europe entering the modern age and a young Germany’s increasingly ...

A LOCOMOTIVE attacked by German fighter planes during the Second World War is set to star at Swanage Railway’s first ever Spring Steam Gala.

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has approved CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive’s acquisition of Vossloh Locomotives, saying its concerns do not justify rejecting the merger. Vossloh announced in August 2019 ...