A new children's book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley who drove the Rocket.

China and Japan have won the high-speed train race. With bullet trains crisscrossing the Asian supercontinent, it has made ...

A NEW home has been confirmed for the artefacts from the Rainhill Trials exhibition. A huge part of Rainhill's history, the locomotive trials was a competition that took place in the village in 1829, ...

According to The Times, a pile of Lego bricks is accompanied by an explanation that the public believes: “The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to ...

And I think it may have changed a bit since then. My main memories are of the Stephenson's Rocket steam train, the prototype of then modern-day Deltic express locomotive, and a Rover car with a ...

As part of the Railway 200 campaign celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, an interactive tour has been launched that gives an insight into the past, present, and future ...

The Railway 200 campaign has launched a new-look timeline today which takes us on a scenic, interactive tour of the past, present and future of rail. Railway 200 celebrates the 200th anniversary of ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a second-generation navigation satellite, NVS-02, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit using a GSLV rocket in its 100th launch from ...

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – On Monday, January 27, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. The launch occurred at 5: ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, Jan. 27, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 12-7 mission. Original story: Welcome to FLORIDA ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday with Starlink internet-beaming satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The four-hour launch window opens at 2:21 p.m. ET, according to th ...