A Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado steam locomotive has become the first railway vehicle of its kind to operate with Hitachi Rail’s European Train Control System (ETCS). Hitachi Rail's ETCS ...

All aboard? I’m nostalgic for nostalgia. I did not travel on a steam train until 1998, 30 years after British Rail in its wisdom – a terrible contradiction in terms, of course, “British Rail ...

On July 3, 1938, the No. 4468 Mallard thundered along Stoke Bank near Grantham, Lincolnshire, at 125.88mph - a speed that has remained unmatched by any steam locomotive for three-quarters of a ...