The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread

A pictorial history of the many producers of industrial steam locomotives in Great Britain, from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The

After WWII the existing railway companies were all put into the control of the newly formed British Transport Commission and that government organization spawne

The disappearance of the steam locomotive in the land of its birth touched the hearts of millions, but when the government announced the Modernisation Plan for

Ken Gibbs tells the history of the engineering triumph that is a steam locomotive from the 1800s to the 1960s showing how each development changed the course of