Railway 200 is a national cross-sector celebration of the 200th anniversary of the modern railway.  Since kicking off on New ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

A time capsule, packed with anniversary artefacts, is to be tucked away in Derby for at least 50 years, as part of a national ...

From the Flying Scotsman to the dawn of the tube The Engineer has reported on some of rail's most significant moments ...

Britain's most advanced locomotive yet has been unveiled in Cambridgeshire. GB Railfreight (GBRf), one of the UK’s leading rail freight operators and backed by Infracapital, has revealed its new Class ...

It’s been more than two centuries since Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick showed off his railway invention in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, changing the world in the process. By ...

GB Railfreight will operate the six-axle Class 99 bi-mode locomotives. Credit: Beacon Rail Lux Holdings S.á.r.l. Switzerland-based Stadler has secured a contract from Becon Rail to deliver 30 Class 99 ...

Dozens of people, including a young British girl, were injured when a packed train struck a locomotive in western Thailand.

You could always find us on the end of the platform, sitting on a porter's iron-wheeled goods barrow. With a biro and notebook in one hand and a bottle of pop in the other, we looked expectantly down ...