The National Railway Museum in York has preserved 43002, the first production power car. The Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board nominated 43102 (43302) for preservation as holder of the record for being the fastest diesel locomotive on the planet. The power car was donated to the NRM up...
In 1973, TOPS (a computer system managing the whole of the railway's operations) was introduced, requiring locomotives and multiple units to be renumbered - individual carriages and wagons continued to carry numbers in a separate series but were classified according to type. ...
Although it is still possible to travel on the Trans-Siberian railway, and take the Orient Express from Paris to Vienna, steam trains such as the Mallard or Flying Scotsman, have not travelled regularly for almost 30 years in many countries. Diesel powered locomotives or trains running on elec...
The all-newGraham FarishLNER V2 Class Locomotivesees Bachmann tackle this popular prototype inN scalefor the first time in twenty years. The full tooling suite is exploited by the models included in the Autumn 2024 British Railway Announcements, with LNER- and BR-era locomotives, the latter havi...
RailbusBritish Railways, confronted with deficits on rural passenger services which are operated with obsolete diesel multiple-unit cars over trackage on which major work cannot be justified, is expe...
Although it is still possible to travel on the Trans-Siberian railway, and take the Orient Express from Paris to Vienna, steam trains such as the Mallard or Flying Scotsman, have not travelled regularly for almost 30 years in many countries. Diesel powered locomotives or trains running on elec...
Between 1862 and 1912 the Falcon Works in Loughborough built steam locomotives. The company's record books do not seem to have survived, but we have good evidence for about 275 engines and the real total was probably 340 or more. Most of... DF Hartley - 《Journal of the Railway & Cana...
London and North Eastern Railway (nowLondon North Eastern Railway) Great Western Railway (GWR) and Southern Railway (SR) GWR is still in use today and operated under the FirstGroup franchise. Through a gradual period of nationalisation, much of the network was transformed into diesel and lines...
999999,PROOF THAT THE STEAM AGE IS STILL LIVE IS THIS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE AND? SWEDEN BUILDS BIGGEST LOCOMOTIVE. Reported to be the biggest and most powerful railway locomotive in the world, the "D-m-3" has gone into service pulling iron-ore wagons from Kiruna in Swedish Lappland to Narvik,...
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