There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

A new book is celebrating the legacy of British steam locomotives. Great British Steam Locomotives That Made History - The Story of Railways in Britain is written by local historian Dr Rosa Matheson.

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...