GB Railfreight has introduced its new Stadler Class 99 locomotive at its Peterborough headquarters. The new locomotives were first publicised at InnoTrans 2024 in Berlin. £150m ($201m) investment was ...

Two steam locomotives will feature on the train to the Bath Christmas Markets tomorrow (12th December 2025).

The first carbody of Class 93 tri-mode locomotive. Credit: Stadler. Rolling stock manufacturer Stadler has commenced the production of its first-ever tri-mode locomotive fleet, Class 93, for British ...

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 ...

The railroad industry is struggling to determine what the locomotive of the future will look like. Railroads have committed to carbon emission reductions, but there still much uncertainty about the ...

Although Doncaster ‘Plant’ Railway Works is noted for building Flying Scotsman and Mallard engines in the 1920s, and 1930s, ...

British startup Steamology has secured a contract to test its hydrogen-fueled steam traction system in a converted Freightliner Group (a Genesee & Wyoming subsidiary) freight locomotive. Funded ...

Royal Mail is to issue a set of stamps celebrating the heritage of British steam locomotives and the pioneering development of the UK's railway network. A set of 10 stamps features locomotives that ...

Oliver Bulleid was the Southern Railway's last chief mechanical engineer While the achievements of engineers like Isambard Kingdom Brunel and George Stephenson are known the world over, one of the ...