The National Railway Museum (NRM) in Leeman Road is celebrating its volunteers ahead of its 50th birthday later this year.

The Railway 200 website also has useful information on local railway societies, model railway clubs and heritage railways running their own commemorative events during the anniversary year.

Other attractions from the National Collection joining Locomotion No. 1 at The Greatest Gathering include the Midland Railway 1000 Class No. 1000, a Derby-built steam locomotive known to be the first ...

It's 200 years since George Stephenson climbed into the cab of the aptly named Locomotion No. 1 and took 600 passengers on a 26-mile trip on the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

A shortlist of the 20 best-loved railway artworks in Britain have been unveiled as part of bicentenary celebrations for the modern railway - with a quarter of them having Scottish links.

A Grade II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson is to go on show at a museum. The bronze 8ft 10in (2.7m) statue of the Northumberland-born engineer will be unveiled at the Locomotion ...

Today, John is joined by Tricia Menke, Events and Outreach Coordinator at the Illinois Railway Museum! Tricia tells John what we should know about the museum, their mission to educate people about ...

David Harding went off like a steam whistle on March 26 in an emotional confrontation with Elgin County Railway Museum managers over the “mistaken” disposal of a railroad artifact that ...

Locomotion, a tucked-away railway museum on an industrial estate at Shildon in County Durham, has been known to add to its attractions with some real coups, previously displaying the likes of ...

The Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum on March 26 announced that Benjamin H. Griswold, IV will co-chair with CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs its $38 million capital campaign for restoration ...