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 ...

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The magnificent layout that he eventually built at his home was three-rail Hornby Dublo and 53 of the locomotives going under the hammer are Dublo. “Those include a pre-war model of the Class A4 ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them ...

Shenyang steam locomotive museum has been built by Shenyang Railway Branch Bureau and Shenyang Botanical Garden, based on original Shenyang Railway steam Museum hides 15historical locomotives and ...

The iconic toymaker, owner of Hornby model railways and brands including Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi, has suffered major disruptions with one of its largest suppliers in China over the last year and ...

Track the history of Hornby’s iconic model trains from Frank Hornby’s early home-made toys in sheet metal, through the development of Hornby ‘O’ gauge and Hornby-Dublo. Trace the ...

Versatility is a single word that sums up the Mikado-type steam locomotive. This 2-8-2 wheel arrangement became the "one size ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

The locomotive used for the project was bought from a scrapyard in the 1980s A charity working to restore a 1918 steam locomotive has been awarded a £151,200 grant to develop volunteer's heritage ...

Ed Young/BBC Andy England, managing director at CTL Seal, said the firm usually worked with "the renewable market, the oil and gas, nuclear" As part of a modernisation program, steam locomotives ...