There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast ... of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered for revenue freight use on British metals.

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) has completed its biggest-ever civil engineering project, the £1.25 million ...

The Swanage branch line was closed and demolished by British Rail in 1972 but volunteers spent 30 years rebuilding Swanage Railway as a tourist attraction. It operates full-size steam and diesel ...

Locomotives like the Flying Scotsman often draw huge crowds of fans A body representing heritage railways in the UK has issued a ... and Warwickshire Steam Railway, said: "We've burned Russian ...

In this collection of television and radio programmes, we celebrate the craftsmanship inherent in steam trains and the beauty of the British countryside through which these locomotives have passed.

Talk to any driver or any person who’s ridden on a steam ... m a railway historian, enthusiast, writer, curator and consultant to a number of railway-related museums and attractions in Britain ...

An update on the work taking place on 6201 Princess Elizabeth has been released by the loco society. The boiler and the cab ...

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PART of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) – one of Britain’s leading heritage ... and is not part of the scheme. A Grafton Steam Crane assisting volunteer. (Image: KWVR) The other ...

After all their hard effort's, KWVR volunteers stand on the renewed bridge after the projects completion // Credit: KWVR The ...

The multi-million pound heritage centre is on the 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway - where the first steam-powered passenger train departed. Volunteers have taken almost two ...

Britain's train services could be completely nationalised by the end of 2027 under laws being fast-tracked through the Commons this week. But the Department for Transport is reluctant to ensure ...