If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

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Joe Campbell travels a section of the new freight rail service between Southampton and Doncaster as he takes a deep dive into ...

43159 arrived at the Great Central Railway by road, rather than rail A record-breaking diesel locomotive is being brought back into service after sitting in storage for two years. In its glory days ...

CLASSIC steam and diesel locomotives – together with a nostalgic freight train – will be running through Purbeck countryside after Christmas for a mini-gala day. Swanage Railway has organised the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chronic shortage of rolling stock on the UK rail network has pushed one operator to bring back British Rail ...