Between 2016 and 2017, ROG purchased a total of five Class 47 locomotives from Riviera Trains and Direct Rail Services to complement their Class 37s. The first Class 47 obtained was No. 47812 whic...

On the 25th of August 2020 Avanti West Coast unveiled a new livery for one of its train-sets. Billed as the biggest Pride flag the UK has seen on the side of a train, the new livery wraps the full...

Power Car 43004 entered service in September 1976 and was one of the prototypes for the Brush MTU engine upgrade, this occurring between September 2004 and June 2005. As a result, it did not recei...

Following a period of unprofitable operations, the InterCity East Coast franchise and associated HST units passed from NXEC to East Coast, an operator owned by the Department for Transport. From t...

After its 1993 withdrawal from Derby Works, D3771 was purchased and became a permanent resident of the Great Western Society. In 2010 the locomotive was given plain green livery, then repainted ag...

Class 66 No. 6608 began its life working in Europe for Netherlands based ERS Railways in December 2003. In 2009 the locomotive was bought by Beacon Rail Leasing and given the name 'Dave Meehan'. I...

91001, the first of the Class, was built in April 1988 and soon unveiled to the press. The Locomotive was named 'Swallow' and carried the InterCity Swallow Livery until privatisation in 1996. Refu...

Delivered in 1989, 91010 was the final one of the original batch of 10 Class 91s to be built. Between 2001 and 2009, the locomotive was named after the Victorian physician, missionary and explorer...

Designed to deal with the steep gradients of the Calder Valley route, the Class 110 was distinctive in being the first generation DMU with the highest power to weight ratio of any naturally aspira...

Engineered to deal with the steep gradients of the Calder Valley route which it became synonymous with them being named 'Calder Valley sets', the Class 110 was one of the first DMU's with the high...

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British Rail modernisation plan...

Both 43480 and 43484 are both part of Rail Adventure’s first dive onto British rails, with the company previously only being based out of Germany. P...

43060 is currently in storage at Long Marston after being introduced by BR in 1977, the unit was built by BREL, as with all other Class 43 units. 43060 was one of a numbe...

While Class 800 units had been in service with the LNER since May of 2019, they would not operate on the flagship Flying Scotsman service until the first of August. Set 8...

6211 Queen Maud entered traffic on 21 October 1935 allocated to Camden shed and fitted with the riveted 9-ton LMS tender, which it retained until the first heavy service ...