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Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.
A retro computer festival will be returning to Swindon. RetroFest 2025, the UK's largest vintage computer festival, is set to take place at the STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway.
And while the rails were taken up in Newton Falls and elsewhere many years ago, an original, stone whistle post still stands in the ground of the track bed right-of-way just north of the depot to ...
The Foxcote Manor Society (FMS) has launched a new appeal to raise funds to manufacture and fit a new firebox to the ...
We take a nostalgic look back at pictures from 1952. Laurel and Hardy had performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome after a tour ...
The takeover marks the first step towards the Labour government's plans of renationalising the railway system.
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
the 1385 steam locomotive is nearly whole. And in the coming months, the locomotive will be readied for its return this year to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in central Sauk County, from Steve ...
Early in her career, she ran aground in Ireland in 1846, and was sold by the Great Western Steam Ship Company to the Liverpool firm, Gibbs, Bright and Company, making 32 voyages in 20 years ...
Class 57 No. 57003 is to visit The Greatest Gathering in August, subject to operational availability. The Class 57 is ...
Network Rail’s recovery programme to stabilise performance between Reading and London Paddington has reached half time. Paul ...