It was the end of an era. Didcot depot had been home to steam locomotives for more than 30 years. On Sunday, June 13, 1965, railwaymen gathered to say farewell as the last three left. No 7816 Frilsham ...

Rewari’s 118-year-old steam locomotive shed, the only surviving one in India, is facing an uncertain future. The Railways is struggling to keep the shed, which was turned into a heritage site six ...

An industrial steam engine last used to haul coal in the 1970s has been "rediscovered" at a convent in the east of England. It was thought the 1929 locomotive, called "Newstead", had been scrapped.

Age is just a number at the Steam Locomotive Shed and Rail Museum at Rewari near Delhi. The shed itself will complete 130 years next year, and all of its occupants, barring one, have seen at least 60 ...

Jeff Nicholls's childhood memories of his local Wolverhampton steam sheds in the 1960s paved the way for over 20 years of driving steam trains on the Polish main line, and now he has launched a book ...

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A stone shed in which a locomotive was once built and repairs carried out to steam engines will, from next year, be used to keep the bodies of townspeople in good health.The shed located in a corner ...

A once-bustling Carlisle rail depot is set to return to its historic roots after plans to store main line steam locomotives on the site were approved. Cumberland Council has granted permission for a ...

steam locomotive expert Shaun Ackerman tells Engineering News about Reefsteamers’ newly refurbished locomotive wheel lathe. Cameraperson: Dylan Slater. STEAMING AHEAD Reefsteamers is undertaking a ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The pounding of pistons, the rhythmic chuff of a locomotive and storybook names such as "Fairy Queen" are all part of the allure of India's old-fashioned steam railways, which ...

In a bid to promote heritage and to spread awareness about the way trains looked when railways started in the country, Southern Railway and Integral Coach Factory (ICF) are building replicas of steam ...