US-based Electro-Motive Diesel has delivered the last batch of seven new Class 66 locomotives to UK rail freight company GB Railfreight (GBRf). The new Class 66s are currently being transported to ...

Britain’s preserved Class 56 diesel locomotives continue to benefit from extensive behind-the-scenes work as owners, ...

Positive Traction US (PTUS) LLC’s British affiliate, Positive Traction Ltd., has converted a former British Rail Class 08 switcher from diesel-electric to 100% battery-electric propulsion, with ...

For passengers returning to destinations in the south, the Class 37s will tackle the long climb up to Shap summit before ...

UK-based Direct Rail Services (DRS) has unveiled new dual-mode Class 88 locomotive 88002, which combines both 25kv electric and diesel electric operating modes. The new train is an improved version of ...

In January 1975, The Railway Magazine published a vivid first-hand account of what it was like to work a diesel locomotive through extreme weather on Scotla ...

Class 66 locomotives are set for a new lease of life, after being sold by DB Cargo UK to Grup Feroviar Roman in Romania.

The Class 47 diesel locomotive has arrived at Wensleydale Railway as part of its growing fleet of heritage diesel locomotives. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get ...

ROMANIA: DB Cargo UK has announced a multi-million-pound deal to sell 25 surplus EMD Class 66 diesel locomotives previously ...

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 locomotive, number 47714, was revealed in Rail Express Systems (RES) red livery during the annual weekend model railway show at Leeming Bar on May 10 and 11. RES, a sector of British Rail launched ...