Great Western express engine is set to steal the show at the heritage railway’s biggest steam event of the year ...

A busy timetable of passenger and demonstration freight trains will run between Swanage, Harman’s Cross, Corfe Castle and Norden.

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few ...

The newly appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR, George Jackson Churchward, sought out designs for modern steam ... the late 1890s the Great Western Railway were seeking new locomotives ...

Swanage Railway volunteer commercial director, Alex Atkins, said: "With a wide range of steam locomotives in operation on passenger and demonstration freight trains – from the 1890s to the 1950s ...

Thomas Edington & Sons built four steam locomotives at their Phoenix Iron ... It removed once more, in 1890, to St Vincent Lane, and Phoenix Park was laid out on the old site.

and others were small locomotives with road wheels. Beginning in the 1880s, inventors tried very hard to make cars that would run well enough to use every day. These experimental cars ran on steam, ...