The ‘X’ Class steam locomotive, the first indigenous high-speed diesel (HSD) oil-fired steam locomotive, has landed in Mettupalayam for use in the Nilgiri Mountain Railway(NMR). The newocomotive ...

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 ...

Tangmere is owned and operated by the West Coast Railway Company from its base in Carnforth. "From the lack of steam on the locomotive as it arrived, I would imagine that the class 57 diesel ...

STAUNTON, Va. (WDBJ) - A partnership between the Virginia Scenic Railway, The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., the Steam Railroading Institute and the Virginia Mechanical Preservation Society ...

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

A UNIQUE steam locomotive has hauled its first passenger train since 1945. Church bells at St Mary’s Church rang out in Swanage to mark the T3 class locomotive No. 563’s return to rails after a ...

Railroad fans in central Pennsylvania are in for a treat during the month of October as Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, known as “The Queen of Steam,” visits Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that ...