"When I was young we had a book about steam trains. In it was a photograph of a steam train - 'City of Truro', of the Great Western Railway - which it was claimed reached 102mph during the first ...

The public will have the chance to be among the first passengers to enjoy a nostalgic ride on the newly-restored locomotive.

A busy timetable of passenger and demonstration freight trains will run between Swanage, Harman’s Cross, Corfe Castle and ...

History will be made on the Swanage Railway this spring as a 1920s Great Western Railway ‘Hall’ class locomotive visits the ...

Prototype locomotives featuring new technologies have a long and inglorious history of not making ... The fact it’s technically a steam locomotive is incidental.

Travelling by steam is like deciding to commute to work in a Jaguar E-type ... not least the magic of the experience for those in attendance. ‘You knew you were taking part in railway history as the ...

This is the author’s diary for 1966 of his travels throughout Britain to travel behind as many steam locomotives as possible ...