The tunnel was regarded as one of the greatest specimens of engineering skill and had a length of 5,300 yards, or three miles ...

His defining moment was losing at the 1997 general election – but now Michael Portillo is reborn as a global railway ...

While he was working in Ipswich he spent much of his spare time driving the steam locomotive at the Mid Suffolk ... and opened five years later in 1830. These two railways are universally seen ...

Former Suffolk journalist Ed Crosthwaite has a big year ahead - masterminding one of the key elements of the rail industry's 200th birthday party!

Feasibility work will also start on a new gallery and a static rail experience for the 1830 station, which is the world’s ... experience that tells the story of the railway, and a static locomotive ...

the first locomotive to be tested by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in 1830, to the newest stream-lined high-powered engines was exhibited by Jimmy Thatcher. A collection of several hundred keys ...

“The Rocket,” though not the first steam locomotive, was the first to bring ... Benjamin Bradley, who was born a slave somewhere around 1830, is one of the world’s most important inventors ...