A Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado steam locomotive has become the first railway vehicle of its kind to operate with Hitachi Rail’s European Train Control System (ETCS). Hitachi Rail's ETCS ...

Tickets will go on sale 9 a.m. April 16. Reading & Northern will feature the recently restored 4-8-4 T-1 steam locomotive #2102 on this trip to give steam fans an opportunity to experience the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive is to visit the world's oldest railway. Furness 20, built in 1863, will be at ...

The South Tynedale Railway has opened for the season with a special guest locomotive set to feature in its annual steam gala this summer. Hunslet 1215, a rare historic steam locomotive built ...

The celebration took place on a day when a 25-member team of the parliamentary standing committee on railways visited the hills The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway’s heritage steam loco, which completed ...

The news comes as last year Network Rail issued a £40m tender document for companies to bid to fit 24 main line steam and heritage diesel locomotives. Bosses launched the ETCS technology in 2021.

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Tom Goulding (Engineering Degree Apprentice, Hitachi and retired steam driver Ray Poole // Credit: Network Rail Later this year, BR Class 55 No. D9000 ‘Royal Scots Grey’, a heritage diesel pathfinder ...

The A1 Steam Locomotive ... has ever been. The locomotive is now fully fitted with European Train Control System – the digital signalling system that allows it to be used on the East Coast Main Line.

A steam locomotive has successfully run using Hitachi Rail’s European Train Control System (ETCS) digital signalling technology for the first time. The trial, completed on the Cambrian line in Wales, ...