In the US, Parallel Systems is also working on electrifying individual freight wagons so that they can move independently ...

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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 gone, ...

The LMS Stanier Class Five 45110 has not been in use since 2008 A heritage railway has confirmed it has sold one of its popular locomotives to help secure its financial future. The Severn Valley ...

From battery chemistry to lifetime and charging speed, what's best for European locomotives is still up for debate.

Clan Line was prevented from travelling further than Wareham because of its massive weight A 1940s steam locomotive has arrived at a Dorset seaside resort, 46 years after it was banned from travelling ...

A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to restore a locomotive which hauled Winston Churchill’s funeral train, in time for the 50th anniversary of his death. The British Railways locomotive 34051 ...

A quarter of a century on, the political party that abolished British Rail seems to be busy recreating it. Back in the 1990s the Conservative Party thought a state-run national railway organisation ...

Heritage railway services at an diesel gala and beer festival were stopped after a restored locomotive partially derailed, triggering an investigation. The incident happened at Corfe Castle station in ...