The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain’s first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineere

What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world’s first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England. Much has been writ

The fascinating history of LMR 57 Lion, the real locomotive featured in the cult film 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'.

Drawing on contemporary data, and analysis of replica locomotives at the re-enacted Rainhill Trials, Anthony Dawson explores the history of the famous Rainhill

Just like today, with high-specification computers being used to design even higher specification models for the next generation, the making of machines to make