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The three-day railway ... gauge steam engines as subjects, so this opportunity is off the scale.” Tim has spent his 40-year career depicting scenes from British heritage, with a focus on transport and ...
A last of its kind steam ... in the railway works, took me out to see the first of the new Western Hydraulic loco's D800 Sir Brian Robertson and have been hooked ever since. "I always try to get out ...
Steam trains could be facing the end of the line amid plans to abolish traditional railway traffic light-style signals. Network Rail plans to remove the lineside lights most train drivers ...
Steam train WA165, pictured here during a cruise ship visit in summer, had two full runs on Saturday and Sunday over Easter to Muriwai and back. Photo / Murray Robertson The toot toot from the ...
A new steam train experience is coming to Leicestershire, allowing passengers to board more than one locomotive. Great Central Railway (GCR) have launched their new 'Explorer Tickets', which ...
An historic Isle of Wight train station is back in railway ownership for the first time in 57 years. Almost six decades after being sold by British Railways, Ashey Station has been purchased by the ...
A long-pending demand for a direct railway line connecting Hoshiarpur to Chandigarh via Nawanshahr, Balachaur and Rupnagar continues to remain in limbo, despite repeated appeals by residents and ...
This is the moment a man was seen walking along an active Birmingham railway line just minutes before a steam engine was due to pass by. The man was seen casually walking in the middle of a set of ...
Ashey Station on the Isle of Wight was built in 1875 for the opening of the Ryde to Newport Railway, but was sold in 1968 after the line closed. Isle of Wight Steam Railway, which reopened the ...
Tornado, a steam train completed in 2008, is being used to assess the compatibility of new technology - Charlotte Graham ...