Green Dragon is an eco-friendly steam locomotive as it burns wooden briquettes,lots of them.(Driver is sitting on some of them. )Used by South Tynedale railway it had a trip out today but had the ... (more)

South Tynedale goes green with its latest locomotive Green Dragon. An 0-4-2 loco which burns wood briquettes or Biomass. There have been a year or more of teething troubles but it has been turned ... (more)

A little piece of history being made. South Tynedale railway inherited the branch line from Alston to Haltwhistle in the North of England after British Railways closed it down in 1976. The standa... (more)

First Santa Special of the day heads past mile post one and back to Alston where the young passengers will make their way to Santa's grotto. Next weekend it will be my turn to don the red suit and... (more)

A SLICE OF HISTORY. In 1976 the last train ran along the 18 mile line from Haltwhistle to Alston. Attempts were made to preserve it as a standard gauge railway but the line was quickly ripped up. ... (more)

Bright blue sky and sunshine are rare on the South Tynedale railway, normally clouds are everywhere but yesterday was a beautiful day. Locomotive Barber heads a train for Alston out of Lintley via... (more)

The South Tynedale Railway is a preserved, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in Northern England and is England's highest narrow gauge railway. The route runs from Alston in Cumbria to L... (more)

Barber heads toward Gilderdale viaduct with the second train of the day. This unusual locomotive has recently been restored and features a cut down cab, so cut down that the driver has to lean out... (more)

Barber, recently restored, heads a service train towards Kirkhaugh station.

Barber Titleys has strong ties to this locomotive – it was named after Francis Barber, one of the founders of the firm. Francis Barber was chairman of the Harrogate Gas Works Company, and when t... (more)

A bit of industrial railway history. Leading locomotive HARROGATE worked at Harrogate Gas works. It has been restored and is now at Statfold Barn in Staffordshire. Second locomotive also worked at... (more)

May 1 and there is snow on the hill tops. Guest engine HARROGATE heads the morning train back to Alston running through the lovely North Pennine countryside

Thomas Edmundson catches the late afternoon sunshine as it heads back to Alston with its train over Gilderdale viaduct

Santa Specials began on the South Tynedale railway on Saturday, locomotive Thomas Edmondsen was at the south facing end and a small diesel faced north. Made the journey much quicker being top and ... (more)