The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.
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It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.
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The three-day spring steam gala in brought in the crowds, reports Robin Jones and Gareth Evans.
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THE timetable for District 150 – the last chance to travel on a steam train on London Underground beneath the heart of the capital –
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By Cedric Johns VINTAGE Trains has announced its first season of tours as a Train Operating Company. The publication of the 2019 itinerary coincided with
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I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on
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Gordon Rushton, 5BEL trustee, tells the story of the project to re-create the famous Brighton Belle luxury dining train, from its inception to how it
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I have been conducting research regarding lost NER network tile maps, which are basically of three types, and am trying to ascertain whether readers of
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