The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, ... This train wasn't that fast, with just a top ...

They were turned by a quartet of double-acting steam cylinders with a 19.75-inch bore and 26-inch stroke—that’s a 522.1-liter four-cylinder in car parlance—under a force of 300 psi of steam ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them ...

During 1938 there was a feeling that an LNER locomotive could go faster than the current British record. A high-speed test was arranged – in much secrecy – for Sunday July 3, 1938.

Though advanced steam technology has impacted many industries, the one that it affected the most was railways. Several modern locomotives that ran on steam engines kept getting better with time ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics.

An iconic steam locomotive is set to make its way through Somerset this summer. No. 60163 Tornado makes its return to the main line this summer hauling steam day trips from Bristol, Yatton ...

The Class Y trains were popular steam trains that started life in 1912, but they weren't among the most powerful at first. That changed with the introduction of the Y6a model.