Most people believe that Thomas Savery, a British engineer, was the one who invented the steam engine that later led to the ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s ... prototype turbo-generator will replace the diesel engine in a redundant British Rail class 60 freight locomotive.

The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London has the largest working Cornish Steam Engine in the World. It was actually built for the site to pump water to West London and started work on the 30th May 1846.

The railways were nationalised under the 1947 Transport Act and managed by “British Railways”. Back in the 1950s, the railway had a poor reputation. As one survey respondent described, the railway was ...

It's a bumper announcement from the team at The Greatest Gathering. No more than four steam locomotives have been announced ...

South Eastern Railway's O1 class 0-6-0 steam locomotive will be the star attraction at the Cotswold Festival of Steam.

In the heart of southern Bolivia lies a mysterious train graveyard, where the skeletons of British steam locomotives and rail cars rust away on the edge of the world's largest salt flats.

Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay canopy with a red fringe on top, the Huber "steam traction engine" is a splendid relic of expansionist 19th- and early 20th-century America. It was steam ...

An immense amount of time and money has been expended upon new and ingenious cut-offs for steam engines. Each in its turn, as it was brought before the public, was supposed to excel its ...