One of the zoo train's steam engines was retired in April. The last one will be at the zoo until the end of October.

That's why a train's capacity to pull heavy weights is as crucial, if not more so, as its top speed. For example, some say ...

and unexpectedly provide engine upgrades for existing classes. The fact it’s technically a steam locomotive is incidental.

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...

We have in France the example of a railway on which 200 engines have only a cock for the injection of steam, and the substitution of this for the drawn from the smoke-box has proved sufficient to ...

The Class DD51 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was in service for nearly 60 years since the era of the former Japanese National Railways. The Class DD51 replaced steam locomotives as the workhorse of ...

heritage railway line, which runs between Heywood and Bury in Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire, behind four "iconic" steam locomotives in the Legends of Steam event. Railway ...