Trains on the demanding line between Sydney and Albury. Designed and built in Australia, the boasted an impressive 20 tonnes and up to 2500 horsepower. The first fine locomotives were constructed...

C38 Class locomotive was commissioned for the NSW Government Railways to eliminate the expense and complications of double-heading express passenger and mail trains on the demanding line between S...

3830 was built by Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop in 1949, and was the last of the C38 Locomotive to be produced, it was also the last passenger locomotive to be designed and b...

K1353 D55 Class 2-8-0 Consolidation Type Standard Goods Locomotive In 1916, Clyde Engineering were contracted to produce the K Class locomotives. The first K Class, 1353, entered service ...

The romance of the railways in the United Kingdom was arguably at its best when hundreds of minor railway lines traversed the countryside. In those days the locomotive drivers would have unscheduled s...

On the 3rd of July 1938 the LNER A4 locomotive 'Mallard' set the world speed record for a steam engine at 126 mph at Stoke Bank, south of Grantham. Years later with the nationalisation of the rail...

Having been rebuilt with a conventional boiler and A4 style streamlining in 1937, the W1 ‘Hush-Hush’ continued to serve with LNER and later British Railways. Under BR the locomotive was renumbered...

At the end of January 1935, a Kychap double blastpipe and chimney was fitted to the W1, which eventually required the fitting of a smoke lifting cowl for better smoke clearance. On August 21, 1935...

257 Squadron' was completed at Brighton Works in 1948 as one of the first of its Class produced under BR, and allocated to Dover Marine Shed to work the Continental Boat Trains to London. Perhaps ...

The British Railways Standard 9F Class was a 2-10-0 steam locomotive, the last of the standardised BR designs. The Robert Riddles design was intended as a long distance heavy express freight locom...

Stanier’s Turbomotive, often referred to as ‘The Turbo’ was an experimental non-condensing steam turbine locomotive inspired by similar Swedish Ljungström locomotives. No. 6202 was built as the th...

The locomotive in question, number 1472, was originally outshopped from the GNR’s Doncaster Works as a class A1 with GNR colouring, lettering and numbering before being renumbered and named in 192...

LNER class a1 4-6-2 flying scotsman part of the new hornby dublo range that this locomotive has now reached 100 years of age.  It is a very detailed engine and is a special edition of of only...

Relatively little of note would occur in the locomotives life and service for the next twenty years, with main changes consisting of her coupling with a corridor tender in 1928 (this allowed the l...

Inspired by one of the most beloved British family films of all time, 'The Railway Children Return', out now on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital, is an enchanting adventure for a...