Anonymous donor's £200,000 gift will enable work to start to bring engine back to life.

The first visiting locomotive has been confirmed for the Severn Valley Railway's Spring Steam Gala. The BR 71000 Duke of ...

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 ...

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 places, but ...

WORK has begun on restoring a famous steam loco – thanks to an anonymous £200,000 donation. The engine – No 5775 – shot to stardom after it featured in the classic 1970 movie version of The Railway ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Flying Scotsman has made its first passenger journeys of the year in Cambridgeshire to commemorate the anniversary of British Railways. Train lovers were photographed smiling from the vintage ...

A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to restore a locomotive which hauled Winston Churchill’s funeral train, in time for the 50th anniversary of his death. The British Railways locomotive 34051 ...