When one of Sir Nigel Gresley's 'A4' masterpieces is in full thunderous flight, there's probably not much this planet can offer to surpass the sight and sound. Spine-tingling!

Jinty no. 47324 masquerading as long-gone Bury shed resident no. 47584 is seen in the snow on 26th January 2013 working a Heywood to Rawtenstall service at Burrs on the East Lancashire Railway. S... (more)

BR Standard no. 73129 performs a run-past at the Midland Railway Centre while on a photo charter, with the breakdown crane.

For my last submission of 2012, I thought I would include just one more of the A4 line-up at National Railway Museum annex at Locomotion, Shildon, Co Durham. 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting fr... (more)

This wonderful vantage point from high up a signal post isn't possible unless you're attending a charter. I've never seen anyone try it before, so guess what...

On a clear, still morning such as this it's was a joy to be standing in a frosty meadow just watching the passing of a branch line train. A scene that could have been witnessed throughout the coun... (more)

It's hard to believe that a locomotive that looks in such fine form will soon be withdrawn from service, but the expiry of 41241's current boiler 'ticket' will mean exactly that. Meanwhile, the fr... (more)

The sun has just risen in the Worth valley and the rays catch a glistening overnight frost that laces the fields and embankments. However white a frost may be, a steam locomotive exhaust in winter... (more)

Here is another photo of one of the Woodhead route electric locos. This time one of the seven express passenger Co-Co machines No 27002 seen pulling away from Penistone with a London Marylebone to... (more)

Having showcased several of the late Kenneth Field's photos taken in the Pennine hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire I thought it was time to look at the electrified Woodhead route between Manc... (more)

Inspired by an excellent earlier posting by Fabrice Lanoue (Photo ID 412578), I decided to try a similar view for my last image of the day's charter with the attractive Ivatt Prairie Tank. Luckily... (more)

After going through an involuntary steam-free zone recently, today's charter at the Worth Valley finally broke the spell that bewitched me. And how!

Brian Stephenson's superb series of recent postings of images by the late Kenneth Field include a wonderful photograph of a freight train headed by an ex-LNWR 0-8-0 taken just a few hundred yards ... (more)

New build Class A1 4-6-2 60163 Tornado is now wearing its third livery after Apple Green and Brunswick Green. Freshly repainted into early British Railways blue, Tornado is seen here being dragge... (more)

70013 Oliver Cromwell storms past Dawlish with the 'Royal Duchy' from Bristol to Par in Cornwall. Notice its July but everyone is wearing a coat or sweater - typical of this years summer in the UK... (more)