With 350,000 titles, Barter Books, housed in a Victorian railway station in Alnwick, Northumberland, is a literary pilgrimage ...

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) introduced three short-distance toy train services to attract more tourists to the heritage mountain railway over the past 48 hours and will launch two more ...

There’s something magical about watching a toy train climb the mountains, snaking through green valleys and misty ridges. These toy trains, as they came to be called, are not just a traveller’s ...

An interview with MTH Electric Trains provides a behind-the-scenes chat with Rich Foster and Bradley Deleon about the company ...

Surprisingly, the weather 200 years ago obliged, with the Durham County Advertiser describing it as “propitious”, which is just as well given that the vast majority of the reported 533 train ...

A replica of a historic steam engine has completed a recreation of the maiden journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) to mark the line's 200th anniversary. Locomotion No 1, a 50-year-old ...

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On this day in 2020, the UK’s newest mainline steam train crossed the Tees Valley to revisit the route of the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway exactly 195 years prior. Locomotion No.

Locomotion No 1 crossed Skerne Bridge on the second day of its journey Crowds turned out to watch a replica of a historic steam engine cross the oldest railway bridge still in use for trains in the ...

While Network Rail and the National Rail Museum celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway, the last county in England to get railways is celebrating an anniversary of its own. This year ...