The diesel 100 years later. From scrappy newcomer to industry standard, the story of diesel-electric locomotives starts with CNJ No. 1000.

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 ...

A volunteer-run heritage railway is celebrating one of its diesel locomotives reaching 30 years in preservation service. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, based in Cheltenham, is marking ...

The event promises a celebration of classic British diesel traction, featuring a mix of home fleet locomotives and visiting ...

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43159 arrived at the Great Central Railway by road, rather than rail A record-breaking diesel locomotive is being brought back into service after sitting in storage for two years. In its glory days ...

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