A photograph from a different world - and in many ways the world was different in those times.An 0-4-0 tank engine belonging to the National Coal Board goes about its daily routine at an unknown c... (more)

It has taken no less than 106 years for this wonderful portrait of a London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 'D1' class to emerge from obscurity. It is from a small but fascinating collection of or... (more)

Here comes another gem from the Timken archives. The first Peppercorn A1class Pacific locomotive, No. 60114, entered traffic in August 1948. A total of 49 were built in four batches between 1948 a... (more)