There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...
This view of the old line evokes the golden age of steam as a locomotive travels along. The naval dockyard, seen in the background, was at the heart of island life. That too has disappeared now. Two ...
"The steam railway world is full of pedants," Niall Hammond ... Jonathan Backhouses, an eight-year-old onlooker, later wrote to his sister that it was a "very grand sight to see such a mass ...