QJ 6580's fireman pays last minute attention to his charge before her eastbound departure from Lindong. The broad grin is characteristic of many Chinese people, particularly if you offer it first!

Monday morning, 0600 hours, it's a new dawn. Another mixed freight rolls lazily into awakening Lindong.

Monday morning, 0730 hours, daily produce from local growers awaits onward shipping. It will be loaded in minutes by hand when the workers arrive. Until then, the local rodents will feast on the s... (more)

Hopefully complementing the previous posting, is this a gentle view of the '8K/O4' with arguably the best rake of preserved wagons in Britain, the 'windcutter' set. She is being expertly driven, w... (more)

John Robinson, CME of the GCR is justly famous, for his '8K' class of freight 2-8-0's (LNER class 04). In addition to the GCR’s requirements, many more were built for the ROD (Railway Operating ... (more)

Caught by a final, glorious shaft of late evening sun, Britain's only surviving inside-cylindered 4-6-0 No.8572 passes by at Kinchley Lane. Barely a moment after she had passed resplendent in her ... (more)

On February 14th 2005, 214 Miners were killed in a gas explosion at this mine. The terrible Sunjiawan Mine disaster occurred less than twelve months after I took this image of No.3, one of the min... (more)

In a scene that has been played out millions of times over the last two centuries, the 'bag' is pulled clear after filling the 'Pug's' saddletank. More than one unwanted shower has befallen crew (... (more)

Conversation piece at Haworth Motive Power Depot. It is to be hoped that the safety valves do not lift! Almost seven hundred '8F's' saw service in the UK and many more were shipped to Europe and t... (more)

Beautiful evening light casts red and yellow hues over SY 0849 as she slips away from the stabling point and returns to her duties. Fuxin is one of the last locations in China still to offer the p... (more)

I rather liked the contrast between the bruised and battered lime green front end of a 1950's-built electric and rust-stained SY 0849 built some 20 years later in July 1974. They are caught by the... (more)

The 'pit' was encased in ice and grease and it was only with great difficulty (not to mention stupidity) that I was able to clamber down to get this view. It was only then that I noticed the star ... (more)

The driver of SY 0848 pays some attention to his steed as the evening sun slips away behind a forest of wires, signals, smoke and steam. Between the locomotives is a deep ash pit. Welcomingly war... (more)

This scene could hardly be more typically Welsh, with sheep grazing on unconcernedly as a three coach 'local' train skirts along the lush valley of the River Dee. The Great Western railway and its... (more)

Shafts of light through smoke-stained windows pick out SY 0532 in the MPD adjacent to Chengde steelworks. She was shunting in nearby Shuangtashan yard earlier in the day and has come on to shed fo... (more)