To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829 ...

Hopetown Darlington opened in 2024 and is one of the key heritage sites in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Stockton ...

200 YEARS OF BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS: Carshalton's Honeywood Museum hosts local transport historian and photographer John Parkin ...

The steam railway joined heritage lines across the British Isles for a ‘Whistle Up’ when locomotive whistles and horns were ...

The Royal Mint's 2025 commemorative coin set includes a £2 coin featuring the Newcastle-built Locomotion No. 1 ...

mainly specialising in finely detailed scale models of 19th- and early 20th-century steam-powered road locomotives. “I make the entire engines from scratch,” she told the Ma lvern Gazette in 2007.

Locomotives are the mighty machines that make trains go! From the earliest steam engines puffing smoke to today’s super-speedy electric trains, locomotives have been powering railways for over 200 ...

A “celebratory cacophony” will pierce the air as dozens of vintage locomotives whistle in the 200th anniversary of the birth ...

5 Wiganers are sometimes referred to as “pie-eaters”. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their counterparts in surrounding towns ...

The Royal Mint has revealed five new coin designs commemorating national milestones and anniversaries in 2025, including one with a North East link ...