Steam railway

Can't resist a visit to Didcot Railway Museum, Great Western Society's unique collection of steam engines, coaches and wagons, all just fifteen minutes' drive from The Old Post Office, Wallingford

383 Manson 381 Class 4-6-0 Built; 1903 History; G&SWR 383 (1903) 497 (1919), LMS 14658 (1923) LMS Power Class; 3P Withdrawn; 1930

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Over three decades John Wiltshire built up an unseen archive of thousands of photographs

By Don Benn My theme this time is steam out of Marylebone in the 1960s and 1980s. I didn’t cover the Great Central line in its heyday; only when it was in s ...

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The London and North Eastern Railway Class P2 locomotive, No. 2001, Cock o' The North, on the turntable at King's Cross Station, London, 1st June 1934. The new engine has just arrived from the LNER...

B&W photos and history of Oliver Bulleid's ,plain ugly but powerful Q1 0-6-0 class WW2 austerity steam loco.

The A4 “Pacifics” were the pinnacle of steam locomotive design, and the Mallard was the alpha of the pack.

Isn't it cute? The former South Australian Railways' Steam Motor Coach, a 2-2-0WT from 1905, one of two built. A history of it with pics and videos here. It is one of the locomotives of the Pichi Richi Railway museum, formed in 1973, which operates heritage steam and diesel trains on the restored 39 km section of 3'6" (1067 mm) gauge track between Quorn and Port Augusta in South Australia. Constructed in 1878 as part of the South Australian Railways Port Augusta and Government Gums Railway…