A curious railway accident, as reported in The Railway Magazine, March 1900.
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Category: World
West Midlands Class 196 DMU construction underway
CONSTRUCTION of the first of a fleet of 26 new diesel multiple units for West Midlands Trains (WMT) has begun at Beasain, Spain. They are
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Toronto ‘Flexity’ trams slowly entering service
TORONTO public transport operator TTC is taking delivery of 204 specially designed Bombardier ‘Flexity Outlook’ light rail vehicles The are numbered 4400-4603 in the series
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Berlin’s new S-Bahn trains on test runs
THE first new EMU for the Berlin S Bahn system in more than 20 years was presented to the media in test runs at the
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Elevated line opens in Buenos Aires
ARGENTINIAN President Mauricio Macri opened the first of three new elevated sections of commuter railway being built in the capital Buenos Aires on May 10.
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New Stadler diesel locos for Bolivia taking shape
STADLER is building three metre-gauge, six-axle diesel locos for Bolivian freight operator FCA. The loco’s design – known as the ‘South America Light’ – is
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A1 Trust orders TWO new boilers from DB Meiningen
GERMAN steam locomotive works Dampflokwerk Meiningen has been awarded the contract to construct the new Diagram 118a boiler for new-build LNER ‘P2’ 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince
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English Electric survivors in Asia
A HANDFUL of British-built former Malayan Railways Class 22 locos remain in usable condition, but not all in Malaysia. Forty of the metre-gauge locos were
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Ffestiniog Travel: Go east for an Asian Rail Adventure
INTEREST in rail tours to far-flung places continues to be popular as train travel offers the means to see as much of a country as
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From the archive: The big bird that flew too far
As the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive in the world at the time, Kestrel promised a motive power revolution… but it turned out to be ‘too good for its own good’!
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