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 ...

American Flyer’s No. 303 Reading Lines 4-4-2 Atlantic steam engine and tender helped to inspire a young boy growing up near ...

By 1950 the general form of a diesel locomotive ... axles in its centre sporting connecting rods, it resembled a steam locomotive from the chassis downwards but with a very diesel-age cab and ...

After all, most of the United States replaced steam-powered locomotives in the late 1950s and early 1960s with their diesel counterparts (which are actually electrically driven). That said ...

During the final decades of steam locomotive operation on British Railways keen amateur photographers captured fascinating footage of the end of an era This programme brings you some of these ...

The steam engine rolled ... in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Gavin Johns is volunteer chairman for the Swanage Railway Company, which runs the trains for the trust. He described the event as a ...

However in the 1950s the firing shovel was grabbed by ... Locomotion No. 1 was the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway. Comments are closed for this object What's this?

1, the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway ... the locomotive at Bank Top Station in Darlington. However in the 1950s the firing shovel was grabbed by a young man, Jack Cudbertson ...

O. Winston Link was a pioneering American commercial photographer. Best known for his images of steam locomotives, Link is responsible for developing the equipment and techniques that allowed for some ...