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The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway on the Isle of Wight. The railway passes through miles (9 km) of countryside from Smallbrook Junction [ 1] to Wootton station, [ 2] passing through the small village of Havenstreet, where the line has a station, headquarters and a depot. At Smallbrook Junction, the steam railway connects ...
Locomotives 5051, 29 (visiting), 2999, 3738, and others sitting in front of the engine shed. / 51.613509°N 1.244772°W / 51.613509; -1.244772. Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.
These fundamental improvements in steam engine designs by Trevithick did not change for the whole of the steam era. Amid great interest from the public, on 21 February 1804 it successfully carried 10 tons of iron, 5 wagons and 70 men a distance of 9.75 miles (15.69 km) from Penydarren to Abercynon in 4 hours and 5 minutes, an average speed of nearly 5 mph (8.0 km/h).
Museum of the Great Western Railway. / 51.5629°N 1.7949°W / 51.5629; -1.7949. STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire 's ' railway town '. The 6,500-square-metre (70,000 sq ft) museum opened in 2000.
It opened in 1875 [1] and was an intermediate stop on (successively) the Ryde and Newport Railway, Isle of Wight Central Railway, Southern Railway [2] and British Rail-being renamed Havenstreet in 1958. [3] It closed on 21 February 1966 [4] but re-opened as the headquarters of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 1971.
The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&SR) was one of England's first railways, built to bring coal from West Leicestershire collieries to Leicester, where there was great industrial demand for coal. The line opened in 1832, and included a tunnel over a mile in length, and two rope-worked inclined planes; elsewhere it was locomotive-operated ...
The Strathspey Railway (SR) in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland, operates a ten-mile (16 km) heritage railway from Aviemore to Broomhill, Highland via Boat of Garten, part of the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (later part of the Highland Railway) which linked Aviemore with Forres. It is one of only a handful of former ...
The station allowed the District line trains to change from steam haulage to electric. At around the same time the Metropolitan Railway built its power station at Neasden. Lots Road Power station in a poster from 1910. The station was built end-on to the Thames, on the north bank of the tidal Chelsea Creek. Construction started in 1902 and was ...