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.

In the heart of southern Bolivia lies a mysterious train graveyard, where the skeletons of British steam locomotives and rail cars rust away on the edge of the world's largest salt flats ...

The first new steam locomotive to be built from scratch in Britain in almost half a century made its maiden journey last week - a gentle 120-yard chug at a Darlington railway yard.

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 ...

It listed everything on British Rail that was judged spottable (we didn’t do carriages, still less wagons). I took it everywhere with me, until the increasingly grubby cover wore loose and fell off.

The saying old is gold applies aptly to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government’s suggestion to get British-era steam locomotives up and running to revive tourism. The proposal, forwarded by the ...

LOCOMOTIVE engineers, like their brethren in the medical profession, very often differ widely in their practice; again, they often follow the practice of some older locomotive engineer dead and ...

The first new steam locomotive in Britain for almost half a century chugs into action today after a major fund-raising campaign. By Graham Tibbetts 01 August 2008 • 1:49pm ...

Why An 1830s Locomotive Appears To Be Trapped Under Brooklyn Streets. By . Jen Carlson. Published Mar 23, 2015. Modified Mar 23, 2015. Share ... Next to a lost steam locomotive." ...

AT a meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on October 23, Sir H. Nigel Gresley was installed as president and delivered an address in which he took, as his main theme, the recent ...

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

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