An iconic British steam train featured in Paddington 2 and Top Gear has become the first ever to be 'future-proofed' amid a wider plot to remove much-loved traditional traffic signals. The changes, ...

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The Severn Valley Railway has announced a special guest locomotive for its spring steam gala. BR 71000 Duke of Gloucester will be the first visiting locomotive for the heritage railway's Spring Steam ...

A STEAM train has reached 100mph on Britain's mainline rail network for the first time in 50 years. The Peppercorn class A1 steam locomotive Tornado clocked the speed during a test run on the East ...

Two hundred years ago the first ticket-holding passengers boarded carriages and eagerly awaited as a steam locomotive slowly pulled away along iron tracks. Off they set on the first 26-mile journey in ...

A historic steam engine with decades of history was left without a home when it was forced to leave Swindon - here's what happened to it since.