Steam locomotives shaped Britain’s industrial, social, and engineering legacy. Here’s a journey through the key engines that ...

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In an article written in 1973 for the Great Western Echo magazine, Charles Sherrington, a former serving officer with the Railway Operating Division (the railway arm of the British Army) during the ...

Watchet is ancient. Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Civil War Royalists all made their mark on this north Somerset town, which proudly boasts “1,000 years of maritime history”. Its roots are in ...

The trip is a unique opportunity to ride the Flying Scotsman from York to Newcastle, with pick-ups available from London, ...

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of its pre ...

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