A historic steam engine with decades of history was left without a home when it was forced to leave Swindon - here's what ...

A historic steam engine with decades of history was left without a home when it was forced to leave Swindon - here's what happened to it since.

The first visiting locomotive has been confirmed for the Severn Valley Railway's Spring Steam Gala. The BR 71000 Duke of ...

BHP, HP, PS, kW… It’s easy to glaze over at first glance. Here’s a rider’s guide to what the numbers really tell you about ...

The British-era GT Express once ran till Pakistan and still connects Chennai and Delhi today. Here's how this historic train ...

The Severn Valley Railway has announced a special guest locomotive for its spring steam gala. BR 71000 Duke of Gloucester will be the first visiting locomotive for the heritage railway's Spring Steam ...

An anonymous donor has given £200,000 towards the restoration of a famous locomotive that appeared in The Railway Children.

The reference was to William Stanley Jevons, a Victorian economist who observed in 1865 that more efficient steam engines did ...

DID you know the first package holiday was actually in the UK, nearly 200 years ago? My boys aged 13, 11 and six are all big ...

There has long been a dangerous tendency for some people on the left to believe that Britain is broken and the solution to our problems lies in copying the way things are done in other countries.

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...