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Ruston & Hornsby Locomotive 200793 left Boultham Works in 1940, heading for William Evans & Co. Old Mills Colliery in Somerset. Sold into p...
View full detailsDelivered into Newport Docks on board the MV Stellanova in April 2004, 66850 first went into service with Freightliner, before being transferred to...
View full detailsSentinel 10218 was built for the Port of Bristol Authority, becoming PBA locomotive No. 39 and remaining at Avonmouth Docks until 1984. Moving to t...
View full detailsMSC Sentinel 10144 was delivered to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway Co. in 1963. The Locomotive served a long career at Ellesmere Port before mov...
View full detailsFounded as Ally & MacLellan, Glasgow in 1875 and then later known as the Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd, the company went through various place and ...
View full detailsFollowing the FirstGroup’s decision to buyout their partner’s shares in Great Western Holdings a decision was made to rebrand the Great Western Tra...
View full detailsPower Car 43004 entered service in September 1976 and was one of the prototypes for the Brush MTU engine upgrade, this occurring between September ...
View full detailsFollowing a period of unprofitable operations, the InterCity East Coast franchise and associated HST units passed from NXEC to East Coast, an opera...
View full detailsThe Advanced Passenger Train (APT) programme is remembered by many as one of British Rail's greatest embarrassments, an ambitious but ultimately un...
View full detailsAfter a number of reconfigurations and experimentations with the original APT-P, the NDM was the first vehicle completed for testing in June 1977 a...
View full detailsPoor service saw the Network SouthCentral franchise transferred from Connex Trains, later renamed Southern in 2000. No serious attempt to update th...
View full detailsWhen Southwestern was handed to South West Trains in 1996, the 4-VEPs they inherited were quickly repainted in a style largely based upon the NSE l...
View full detailsFor 2022, the Hornby Dublo locomotive range has been extended to include a BR Princess Coronation Class, ‘City of Lichfield’ in the striking BR Blu...
View full detailsBritish Railways locomotive 35026 entered service at the end of 1948 and was soon allocated to the Stewarts Lane Shed in London. In January 1951 th...
View full detailsSouthern locomotive 21C146 entered service in November 1946 having been built to Bulleid's air-smoothed 'Light Pacific' design. From new the locomo...
View full detailsAfter its 1993 withdrawal from Derby Works, D3771 was purchased and became a permanent resident of the Great Western Society. In 2010 the locomotiv...
View full detailsThe first locomotive built under the 1955 British Transport Commission's modernisation plan, D5500 hauled mainline services out of London Liverpool...
View full detailsDETAILS As the standard BR general-purpose diesel shunter, the 08 Class became a familiar sight at major stations and freight yards. Although a lar...
View full detailsCreated in 1876 for working on the East London Line, No. 54 'Waddon' was bought by the SE&CR in 1904, acting as a motor train preforming light ...
View full detailsHaving been rebuilt with a conventional boiler and A4 style streamlining in 1937, the W1 ‘Hush-Hush’ continued to serve with LNER and later British...
View full detailsAt the end of January 1935, a Kychap double blastpipe and chimney was fitted to the W1, which eventually required the fitting of a smoke lifting co...
View full details257 Squadron' was completed at Brighton Works in 1948 as one of the first of its Class produced under BR, and allocated to Dover Marine Shed to wor...
View full detailsThe British Railways Standard 9F Class was a 2-10-0 steam locomotive, the last of the standardised BR designs. The Robert Riddles design was inten...
View full detailsThe British Railways Standard 9F Class was a 2-10-0 steam locomotive, the last of the standardised BR designs. The Robert Riddles design was inten...
View full detailsStanier’s Turbomotive, often referred to as ‘The Turbo’ was an experimental non-condensing steam turbine locomotive inspired by similar Swedish Lju...
View full detailsBR, Princess Royal Class 'The Turbomotive', 4-6-2, 46202 - Era 4 Continuing as a distinct and uniquely designed steam turbine locomotive, the ‘Pr...
View full detailsDETAILS Loram UK Ltd. offers a complete range of rolling stock engineering and restoration services as well as other track focused infrastructure o...
View full detailsDETAILS One of the newer Class 66 operating in the UK, the Beacon Rail owned locomotive first entered the country through the Channel Tunnel clad i...
View full detailsWhile the Class 66s began their service in 1998, No. 66004s unique livery and service reflect a modern preoccupation with promoting environmental a...
View full detailsDETAILS Class 66 No. 6608 began its life working in Europe for Netherlands based ERS Railways in December 2003. In 2009 the locomotive was bought b...
View full detailsD444 as it was originally known was introduced into service in 1968 and allocated to the Stoke Division, being renumbered 50044 under the TOPS clas...
View full detailsDETAILS Triumph' was allocated to the Stoke Division in 1968, being re-numbered 50042 in 1973 under the TOPS classification system and shedding D44...
View full detailsNo. 60001, the first of the Class 60s to be delivered, was handed over to British Rail in 1989 after being ordered only 13 months earlier. The loco...
View full detailsBR Class 60 No. 60002 was delivered to British Rail in 1989 before undergoing extensive testing. Due to the many problems the Class 60 initially fa...
View full detailsCarrying D5557 as its first number, the locomotive was initially allocated to the Ipswich Engine Shed before moving to a great many others across t...
View full details91001, the first of the Class, was built in April 1988 and soon unveiled to the press. The Locomotive was named 'Swallow' and carried the InterCity...
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