Steam trains in London!
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3_p3gHKBA

I was just reading an article on the BBC about this.

I love it, your standing their with your Iphone drinking a hipster coffee and all of a sudden its Victorian London again and Arthur Conan Doyle is coming to visit.:cool:

Victorian? Try mid 20th century or later.

The US used steam engines in regular service till the mid-60s. They were used in Europe much later -- cheap coal, less oil available. I remember riding on regularly-scheduled steam trains in the early 90s in Poland with my family, as well as 1997 and 1998 when I was there alone.

Interestingly, the Brits used the kind of "Victorian" compartment cars with a door to each compartment till recently as well. I recall those from the mid to late 90s. Electric powered with a motor under each car, not steam.

I lived in South Wales until the early 1960's and rode steam trains frequently from the valleys down to Cardiff.

I read somewhere that "The Cannonball" from Petticoat Junction is still working in a railroad museum in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_door_trains

South west trains eventually bought new rolling stock (as they said they would do decades earlier) in 2005