It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...

Crowds turned out to watch a replica of a historic steam engine cross the oldest railway bridge still in use for trains in the world. Locomotion No 1 is recreating the first British passenger rail ...

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The fire is believed to have been caused by a steam train near Corfe Castle A steam train on a heritage line has caused a seventh fire by the attraction this summer, a fire service has said. Dorset & ...

I fell in love with railways when I was five years old. I would take a 13-hour journey from London, on a train called the Starlight Special, to see my grandparents in Fife. Steam engines were on the ...