City of Truro is best known and celebrated as the first British steam locomotive to have exceeded 100mph. On 9th May 1904 it pulled the Oceans Mail train from Plymouth to London Paddington; during its ...

A busy timetable of passenger and demonstration freight trains will run between Swanage, Harman’s Cross, Corfe Castle and ...

Locomotion No. 1 was the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway.This firing shovel was used on Locomotion No.1, the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway, at the opening of ...

In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive. In the years after this George Stephenson developed the ‘iron road’ using steam locomotives to pull waggons on rails. The first ...

31806, and two 1940s Southern Railway Battle of Britain class Bulleid Pacific express locomotives—No. 34070 ‘Manston’ and No ... 1920s Great Western Railway express ‘Hall’ class locomotive running on ...