A heritage railway or heritage railroad is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period in the history of rail transport.
A tank engine takes on water through a water crane at the Bishops Lydeard station of the West Somerset Railway.
Train crossing a deck truss bridge on Serbia's Šargan Eight line
Token-passing at a children's railway in Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Steam train on Šargan Eight
A spiral is a technique employed by railways to ascend steep hills.
Spiral viaduct of the Bernina Express near Brusio, Switzerland.
Guanjiao Spiral on Qinghai–Tibet Railway at night. The route containing the spiral was replaced by a 32-km long tunnel (at the time of completion the longest in China) in 2014.
Loop (Agony Point) on the DHR, India
Okoba spiral and zig zag in Hisatsu Line, Japan