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 ...
History will be made on the Swanage Railway this spring as a 1920s Great Western Railway ‘Hall’ class locomotive visits the ...
A busy timetable of passenger and demonstration freight trains will run between Swanage, Harman’s Cross, Corfe Castle and Norden.
The newly appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR, George Jackson Churchward, sought out designs for modern steam ... the late 1890s the Great Western Railway were seeking new locomotives ...