The Television to the railway steam locomotive: Ten of the greatest British inventions By TREVOR BAYLIS, Inventor of the wind-up radio, and YORK MEMBERY Updated: 14:06 EDT, 12 September 2011 ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics.

Although British Railways’ steam locomotives disappeared from Didcot 50 years ago, this was not, of course, the end of steam in the town.

THOMASTON -- The hiss of steam, the steady chugging of the engine, the call of the whistle echoing off the hills... These were the sounds of the iron horse, the American steam locomotive, the ...

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When Pakistan gained independence, it inherited 300 steam locomotives from the British authorities of the Subcontinent. The engines, which used coal to produce steam, ...