Jim Rice had no particular interest in trains when he first got a job as a groundskeeper at Strasburg Rail Road in 1973.
A heritage railway and working museum said it hoped a visit by the legendary Flying Scotsman locomotive would give its ...
The 81-year-old, who died on Dec 25, was the woman behind the wildly successful and enduring kids’ TV show that hit the ...
A Tyldesley lad who claimed to have driven the world-famous steam locomotive, Rocket, takes centre stage in a new children’s book by popular Wigan author,.
Across the UK, enthusiasts are gearing for a year of bicentenary celebrations. Events for the Railway 200 anniversary will ...
These magnificent metal beasts, their brass fittings gleaming under a shroud of steam, came to a halt alongside the platform ...
The 13 grease-streaked, overall-clad feminine “roundhousers” who work right along with the men in the roundhouse, where ...
To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829 ...
But he still remembers when he first laid eyes on a steam locomotive train as a child ... Whitely works to keep those same historic engines in operation. “It’s just that pride, that ...
Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough is set to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway. The national celebration, known as ...
The Gresley Society is delighted to announce that the oldest surviving locomotive to the design of Sir Nigel Gresley has moved to the North Norfolk Railway (NNR) to complete its overhaul.
I was sitting on our patio accompanied by a beautiful afternoon in mid-October where a blue sky was paintbrushed with clouds ...