Trains

Britain’s Great Western Railway was sometimes called “God’s Wonderful Railway”. It was the train line that headed out from London to the west to the holiday towns of the West Country all the way down to…

Frenchman André Chapelon is arguably the greatest railway steam locomotive engineer and designer the world has ever seen. Whereas others are known for individual designs and creation of items that improved steam locomotive efficiency André Chapelon…

If you are young enough not to have experienced the steam era on railroads and railways around the world then you’ve sadly missed something that was just plain special. Thankfully there are still some preserved railroads…

Are there machines that are more exciting to drive than a Bugatti Veyron or a McLaren P1? I suspect there are, or at least that there used to be. Back when I was a boy most…

I love trains, and I never quite outgrew train sets although I don’t own one any more and when I need to have fun I’m more likely to want to go shooting, but I still enjoy…

Not everyone is a visionary, but George Bennie was one. Not everyone thinks that using a propeller to drive a land vehicle might just be a good idea, and indeed some of the designs for propeller…