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General Steam Navigation 25011 is now being moved to a private site near Templecombe, Somerset, which is just 20 minutes away from the Wiltshire border. The society has also set up an agreement with ...
Building a simple boiler for your model steam engine doesn’t need to be complicated. In this practical guide, we show you how ...
The Bury Standard 4 group has released an update on the work it is carrying out on two steam locomotives, numbers 80097 and ...
Get ready to witness the awe-inspiring restoration of the legendary 1920’s live steam locomotive "BING," a marvel of ...
A rare opportunity to see the world's last steam-powered weaving shed come to life is happening this week in Burnley.
An appeal has been launched to restore two historic locomotives, known as Annie and Victory, at Whitwell and Reepham Railway Station in Norfolk.
Over the three-day event and the shareholder evening, TSLL took some £30,000 in new shareholdings, all to be match-funded.
The BB18 1/4 1037 steam locomotive, now named Peter Ford, is on the rails again after more than 25 years of volunteer restoration work in Mackay and Toowoomba.
Steam boilers exploded with alarming regularity — at one point nearly once every four days, wreaking havoc on lives and property. Early insurers stepped in to make this technology safer to scale.
Books Received Published: 18 May 1893 The Steam Engine: a Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers N. J. LOCKYER Nature 48, 51–52 (1893) Cite this article ...
Derbyshire County Council said two Cornish boilers powered the Middleton Top engines with steam up until 1957, when a single locomotive boiler was used up until the line closed in 1967.
Without this engine, there is a real risk to our ability to run our services to Whitby beyond 2028.” The Green Knight (No. 75029) was built in the 1950s.