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...
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. ...
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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...
Traditional railway engineers in BR had been sceptical from the start, and in 1969 had successfully lobbied the board of British Rail (as it became in 1964) to start parallel development of a more conventional diesel powered alternative shortly after the APT project...
In August 2024 it was reported that the locomotive was due to move to the Severn Valley Railway at the end of the following month for running in trials. Once run in the locomotive will be based at Crewe. The locomotive was still at Tyseley in January 2025. It was planned that the locom...
In the age of steam, the UK often operated the fastest railways in the world, such as London and North Eastern Railway’s (LNER) Mallard, which set and retains the world speed record for a steam locomotive in 1938 at 203 km/h (National Railway Museum, 2023). However, the UK was slow...
of Leeds, Ruston & Hornsby, and later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Horwich Works; Harland and Wolff, and the North British Locomotive Company Glasgow. The last were delivered in August 1943. Peak production was 1,330 in 1942, the most common model being the Mark IV....
韦迈斯湾站的喀里多尼亚铁路坝顶(Caledonian Railway crest at Wemyss Bay Station) 英国铁路时代的霍夫站(Hove Station in British Rail days) 旧英国铁路货车(Old British Railway vans) 英国铁路公司在万斯福德车站机车上的徽章(British Railways insignia on locomotives at Wansford station) 霍斯特凯恩斯旧英国铁路...
FRANCE: LOCOMOTIVES FOR CUBA A MAJOR FRENCH ENGINEERING COMPANY HAS ANNOUNCED IT WILL SELL 20 DIESEL - ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES TO CUBA. FRANCE: CHINESE ENGINEERS ATTEND TEST OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES ORDERED BY PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC A group of railway engineers from the Chinese People's Republic is in Fr...