It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...

A volunteer-run heritage railway is celebrating one of its diesel locomotives reaching 30 years in preservation service. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, based in Cheltenham, is marking ...

A NOTEWORTHY Parlimentary paper has recently been issued containing correspondence respecting the comparative merits of British, Belgian and American built locomotives running on the Egyptian railways ...

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Positive Traction US (PTUS) LLC’s British affiliate, Positive Traction Ltd., has converted a former British Rail Class 08 switcher from diesel-electric to 100% battery-electric propulsion, with ...

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That Britannia once ruled the waves is common knowledge - but she also once ruled the rails. So declare Colin Alexander and Alon Siton, the authors of new book Railways of the British Empire: ...