It's been 65 years since Thomas the Tank Engine first chugged into the hearts of young readers in 1945. Thomas started out as "Edward the Blue Engine" -- star of the many stories the Rev. Wilbert ...

In this episode, we are going to examine some of the roles that trains have played in military campaigns since the invention of the first steam powered tram locomotive pulled 10-ton loads on a ...

At Easter the work was shared by the railway's steam tram engine and a steam shunter. Nigel Pulham manning the diesel engine which is assisting the steam loco (Image: Archant) ...

FAMILY favourite Thomas The Tank Engine will be one of the top attractions of the Telford Steam Railway, in Shropshire, this weekend and next.

Part steam train and part bus, initially it was pulled/pushed by what people would recognise as a small road running train engine. Later engines resembled a tram with a chimney.

Letting off steam in Terenure - a modernised period home on an old tram line with a converted coach house Glencar 99 Templeogue Road, Terenure, Dublin 6W Asking price: €2.395m Agent: Sherry ...

A seven-year-old boy who died at an open-air museum was crushed to death by a steam engine driven by his father.

End of the line for steam trams A PUBLIC transport era came to an end exactly 100 years ago today. On July 10, 1904, the last Bury steam tram ran as far as the Swan Inn at Woolfold.

The Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club in Scoresby yesterday took delivery of a Z-class tram which they bought for just $1. Club member John Meade said they bought the tram, which was no longer ...

Most Thomas the Tank Engine fanatics, young or old, will know of Toby the Tram Engine – though his links to Wisbech are not so famous.

It’s out with the coal and in with the biofuel for steam tram no. 100, which will operate on a renewable energy source made from trees at MOTAT Live Day on August 20. Developed by Crown Research ...