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THE FESTIVE steam train has set off on its joining to Oxford from Southend East.

AFTER 18 months, the Wensleydale Railway is to extend its service to Leyburn with a variety of Christmas specials, both steam and diesel hauled.

Network Rail has selected the suppliers that will fit European Train Control System (ETCS) equipment to steam and heritage locomotives.

Tomorrow campaigners will be celebrating saving the oldest surviving Black 5 steam locomotive from being scrapped. The £520,000 rescue and return to the tracks of the LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No 5025 has come after over ten years of fund-raising and engineering work. It marks the return to hauling trains of the LMS 5025 which has been out of service for 28 years. The preserved locomotive has been painted and lined up for a roll out onto the Strathspey Railway and its ten miles of heritage ...

The old Skipton to Colne line, approaching Thornton in Craven I HAVE just heard that the locomotive shed down at the bottom of Engine Shed Lane, Skipton, is being pulled down. Its a part of Skipton that was very important during World War Two. The canteen at the side of Skipton Station was a part of it also. Its a sad fact that the railway people have not been recognised for their contribution to the war effort. Hundreds died in the execution of their duty. My dad was a driver then and...

The famed Glenfinnan Viaduct; a train approaching the Horseshoe Curve on the West Highland Line; The Jacobite steam train crossing the Caledonian Canal on the Banavie Railway Swing Bridge. Pictures: Colin Mearns/National Railway Museum/SSPL/Getty PICTURE the scene: sitting nestled in a window seat as sweeping panoramas unfold. Trundling through rugged glens and mist-strewn moors. Skirting the edges of majestic mountains and traversing remote coastal stretches. A smattering of landmarks – wa...

The Black Fives: A history of the era that led to the NBAs racial integration The NBAs colour barrier was broken in 1950, but the ground work for that monumental moment was laid close to 50 years earlier. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/NBA_Global_CMS_image_storage/39/f1/carlangay_bo8r1z6j8j6m1k9liwbz0hnzh.jpg?t=1377768377&w=500 By Carlan Gay @TheCarlanGay url copied to clipboard Nat C...