Gallery: Golden Age of Trains in Black and White, by photographer Jim Shaughnessy

Steam locomotive 35028 Clan Line will be back in steam on the mainline, and will be in London and Brentford on Friday 5th May 2022.

William Crooks, named after the Colonel of the Minnesota Volunteers' Sixth Regiment during the American Civil War (and later Chief Mechanical Engineer for

Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery of all types. He reveals how the steam engine provided the first practical means of generating power from heat to augment the old sources of power (from muscle, wind and water) and provided the main source of power for the Industrial Revolution. In Fred Dibnahs Age of Steam Fred shares his passion for steam and meets some of the characters who devote their lives to finding, preserving and restoring steam locomotives, traction engines and stationary engines, mill workings and pumps. Combined with this will be the stories of central figures of the time, including James Watts - inventor of the steam engine - and Richard Trevithick who played a key role in the expansion of industrial Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

UP 3990. (Dave England Photo)

UP 1938, Council Bluffs, September 15, 1956. (Dave England Photo)

Всегда, когда я видел эту картинку, мне казалось, что это кадры какого то фильма с фантастическим сюжетом типа «Золотого компаса» или «Облачного атласа». Потом я увидел, что оказывается существовали поезда Летящие по рельсам и понял, что это все реально...