If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Nearly 60 years ago the first Class 37 diesel locomotive was delivered to British Railways . . . and the engines are still operating all over the country, including preserved lines. A third of the 308 ...

43159 arrived at the Great Central Railway by road, rather than rail A record-breaking diesel locomotive is being brought back into service after sitting in storage for two years. In its glory days ...

CLASSIC steam and diesel locomotives – together with a nostalgic freight train – will be running through Purbeck countryside after Christmas for a mini-gala day. Swanage Railway has organised the ...

Originally unpopular with enthusiasts because they heralded the demise of the celebrated diesel hydraulic era, the Class 47s gradually found favour. As they too, in turn, became replaced their ...

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New locomotives that run on electricity and renewable fuels could reduce rail freight emissions by more than half on a typical journey. A £150m investment was made into Class 99 locomotives, which ...