The UK Government has announced plans to phase-out the usage of diesel-only trains by 2040 as part of an initiative to reduce carbon emissions. UK Railway Minister Jo Johnson is expected to make a ...

A South Western Railway diesel unit in Portsmouth, UK. Credit: Geof Sheppard. Rolling stock asset management company Porterbrook is set to trial new technology to reduce emissions from diesel-powered ...

A new railway training centre has been named after the man behind some of Britain's best-known steam locomotives. Sir Nigel Gresley designed the iconic Flying Scotsman and Mallard, among many others.

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

The event promises a celebration of classic British diesel traction ... Ernie Elsworth-Wilson, general manager of South Devon ...

A system from national rail operator, British Rail in 1975, used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight ...