Author: John Woodhams

William Adams (1823 - 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms w...

A number of narrow gauge railways can be found today in Saxony, eastern Germany, with commercial daily steam-hauled trains. These were once part of...

The first cranes mounted on railway wheels were hand-operated, but by the mid-nineteenth century several builders had fitted steam engines and boil...

The historic cathedral city of Canterbury has traces of its Roman past. The oldest church in England, St Martins, can trace its history back to thi...