The open-cab locomotive is Firefly, a recently-build replica of an 1840s locomotive:
The original could pull an 80-ton train at 60MPH, which was pretty impressive in its day.
Here's how eccentric the Brits are: The Great Western Rwy. in Firefly's day was a broad-gauge railway with a track gauge of 7'-1/4". So when they wanted to build a replica, they built it in broad-gauge and laid mixed-gauge track so they could run it.
The Brits also have something like twenty steam locomotives under construction.
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