Steam locomotives shaped Britain’s industrial, social, and engineering legacy. Here’s a journey through the key engines that made railway history.

The first steam locomotive to be built from scratch in Britain in almost half a century made its maiden journey last week - a gentle 120-yard chug at a Darlington railway yard. The 62ft, 170-ton train ...

Strictly Bulleid Two is a three day event in Dorset celebrating the steam engines Eight steam engines will gather at a historic railway line, in a sight not seen in the south of England for more than ...

The first new steam locomotive in Britain for almost half a century chugs into action today after a major fund-raising campaign. The newly built Tornado 60163 steam train moves for the first time at ...

The locomotive which hauled the last British Rail passenger steam train is taking its place in an exhibition to mark 40 years since the end of steam. The Oliver Cromwell made its historic journey, ...

AN author is visiting Crewe tomorrow (Friday) to sign copies of a book marking the 40th anniversary of the end of steam on British Rail. AN author is visiting Crewe tomorrow (Friday) to sign copies of ...

Thought to have been dismantled during Sierra Leone's civil war - these are the long-lost British locomotives humanitarians hope will help the country recover from the Ebola crisis. The steam engines ...

TWO locomotives on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway are celebrating birthdays over the weekend of September 14-15. Both were built at the Great Western Railway’s works at Swindon; ...

Anyway, on a drizzly July day in ’98, when the sky was crying tears for England’s World Cup campaign, my wife and I were looking for something to do with our toddler, Tris, at the seaside. Article ...

CHANDIGARH: The Kalka-Shimla rail link awaits a throwback to the days of the steam loco. Spewing steam and regally clanging its wheels, a British-built 1905 steam engine will chug along from Shimla to ...

Eight steam engines will gather at a historic railway line, in a sight not seen in the south of England for more than 50 years. Most of the 1940s Bulleid Pacific class steam locomotives will chug ...