Volunteers rebuilding a section of railway ripped up in the 1960s are celebrating after witnessing a locomotive cross the station bridge for the first time in nearly 60 years. Shillingstone station in ...

After an absence of 27 years, one of the Isle of Wight's most iconic diesel locomotives has returned home, having been ...

US-based Electro-Motive Diesel has delivered the last batch of seven new Class 66 locomotives to UK rail freight company GB Railfreight (GBRf). The new Class 66s are currently being transported to ...

A historic Carlisle rail depot will get a new 140m canopy to store main line steam engines, preserving railway heritage and ...

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 ...

Diesel-electric locomotives are the backbone of modern-day railroading, offering the power and efficiency needed to haul freight and passenger trains across vast distances. Although much of ...

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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 ...

We all know General Motors as an automaker. However, GM also has a storied past in various other industries that many might not consider. In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing ...

Colossal freight locomotives are a fixture of the American landscape, but their 4,400-horsepower engines collectively burn 3.5 billion gallons of diesel annually, at a time when railroads and other ...