of engine sheds and railway works located in York. The large York North engine shed became the National Railway Museum in 1975. The following engine sheds...

"running sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilities are provided for refuelling and the replenishing of water, lubricating oil and grease and, for...

Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company's name is derived...

York ("50A"), and one engine went to Goole ("50D"). Scarborough engine sheds Whitby engine shed York engine sheds and locomotive works Bairstow, Martin...

steam-hauled trains with carriages. Malton engine shed Scarborough engine sheds York engine sheds and locomotive works Newton, Grace (12 June 2019). "The North...

Scarborough engine sheds are two locations used to service locomotives in the town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The first location was used...

of Peckett and Sons railway locomotives, plus those from Fox Walker, both built at the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. Despite heavy work and poor maintenance...

Tyseley Locomotive Works at a frame laying ceremony. The smokebox door carries the identification plate of 51 A, the code for Darlington shed, and the cab...

New York, Susquehanna and Western 142 is a China Railways SY class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive. It was built as SY-1647M in May 1989 by the Tangshan...

British Railways shed codes were used to identify the engine sheds that its locomotives and multiple units were allocated to for maintenance purposes....

4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built in 1938 for operation on the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley...

for the engine driver to breathe as the locomotive passed through mountain tunnels and snow sheds. Another variation was the Camelback locomotive, with...

Class A3 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley...

4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works in 1937 to a design of Sir Nigel Gresley for operation on the London and North Eastern Railway...

numerically as Crewe Works had already completed engines with higher numbers. It was equipped with a BR1G-type tender and given BR Locomotive Green livery, normally...

0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotives built by the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1960 (first ten, D2850-D2859) and 1961 (D2860–D2869) for service in...

the locomotives in service. English Electric trained the British Rail staff at the Doncaster Works in the techniques of maintaining the engines, and after...

cab placed forward of the boiler at the very front of the engine. On a coal-fired locomotive, the fireman's station remains on the footplate behind the...

"cruel and don't like engines" is a reference to the 1955 Modernization Plan, under which steam locomotives were to be replaced by diesel and electric...

first American 2-8-4s were built for the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1925 by Lima Locomotive Works. The railroad's route across the Berkshire mountains...

Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds Bahamas was transported to Dinting Railway Museum, near Glossop, Derbyshire. After British Rail's ban on steam locomotives ended...

stage of the locomotive heritage movement, the building of a new steam locomotive from scratch (i.e. not a re-build of an existing locomotive). This project...

1948, all-new engines were built in unstreamlined form and all the streamliners had their casings removed. The last of the 38 locomotives was completed...

duties and replaced Sans Pareil in everyday usage. In 1927 the engine was dismantled and used in the construction of the new River Mite locomotive, the...

diesel locomotives built by British Railways' Derby and Crewe Works between 1960 and 1962. Along with the similar Class 44 and 46 locomotives, they became...

Pennsylvania, which has six preserved Mikado locomotives, all built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, and six others. The railroad operated from 1871 to...

this site and it was not until the 1860s that the GER moved the engine sheds to the other side of the Cambridge line. Various other engine sheds grew up...

A2 No. 60532 Blue Peter is a 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built in 1948 at Doncaster Works to a design by Arthur Peppercorn, hauling express passenger...

to the motion of locomotive No 9. The damaged engine was recovered to New Romney (towed by a shunting engine), and the other locomotive continued alone...

The Heisler locomotive is one of the three major types of geared steam locomotives and the last to be patented. Charles L. Heisler received a patent for...