The unique brake van, which helped to transport millions of tons of coal hewed at North-East collieries to the region’s ports, is being unveiled at an open day at Tanfield Railway, near Stanley ...

The railways eventually adopted a fail-safe system by which every carriage had brakes. These were held clear of the wheels by vacuum or air pressure, engaging automatically if some mishap severed ...

Hancock again proved him wrong in 1836 by running a regular bus service with four steam carriages (including Enterprise and its alarmingly named sister, Autopsy) out of the City of London ...

Steam on Common Roads. Share full article Dec. 6, 1859 The New York Times Archives ...