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The £95,000 restoration of a steam locomotive which helped bring fresh water to Bradford has been delayed. The 90-year-old engine hauled cement, supplies and workers up to Scar House reservoir in the ...

PLANS to replace a dilapidated steam engine works on Banbury's Canalside have been shown the red light. A decision to replace the 150-year-old building, previously Cherwell Iron Works, with six ...

Rare photos of steam locomotives plying their trade on Teesside tracks feature in a new book. Renowned railway photographer RJ Buckley has published his latest collection and it concentrates on our ...

Volunteers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford have restored a full-scale working replica of the world's first steam railway locomotive. The Trevithick was first designed by Richard Trevithick in ...

It was in the heart of the Black Country that the world’s first successful steam engine was born which would help to power Britain and transform the nation. And it’s name was the Newcomen Engine.

DOM:Today, we bring you a man who had a very special kind of genius. DICK:He took an invention that had been around for more than 50 years, the steam engine, and made it a shedload better. DOM:Yeah, ...

Exuding majesty as they chug off the canvas they have been painted on, there is an instant appeal to the age of the steam locomotive for artists. As they journey through their rural, industrial and ...

Britain once led the world in developing agricultural steam power, with stationary engines arriving on farms in the 1790s, followed later by portable and traction engines as well as cable-operated ...