While in Blackrock College Dublin a model railway exhibition opens. Report shows steam engine at platform prior to departure. Interview with Sullivan Boomer, Chairman Irish Railway Preservation ...

That's why a train's capacity to pull heavy weights is as crucial, if not more so, as its top speed. For example, some say that the Union Pacific Big Boy is the world's most powerful steam engine.

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 ...

Perhaps it’s also because a railway engine, steam ones in particular ... oscillating machine that responds to its environment. And like a real creature, when we see one in danger, or when ...

From using coal to power steam engines to using clean energy from renewable sources to move trains, railways have not stopped improving since being invented. The railway system has grown to meet ...

Video of little Shaw’s reaction was captured by mom Collins Cromie, who told Storyful that her son “is obsessed with trains”. For his third birthday, mom and dad decided to take him “to ride a real ...

Together, the lines, which terminate at Blaenau Ffestiniog and Caernarfon respectively, make up the longest heritage railway in the UK. A total of 25 steam engines run on the lines, while Mr Lewin ...