The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam engine technology. However, it was a revolutionary technology that, upon ...

Sheffield’s last remaining moving steam engine has been given a new lease of life, using modern drive engineering to preserve ...

In an unusual sort-of time-traveling-industrial-kinship, a historic Bay Area train steam engine in need of new parts is getting a helping hand from an equally historic gold country foundry. The ...

Two unique boiler parts essential for the restoration of a steam engine have been stolen by metal thieves in a raid on a Shropshire heritage railway – with the fear they will be sold off as scrap.

Philip Girdlestone, who has died aged 61, was a passionately committed engineer who made it his life's work to design a new generation of steam locomotives that were far more efficient, reliable and ...