MSC no. 32 Gothenburg (visiting from the East Lancashire Railway) crosses Manor Road outside the Middleton Railway main centre onto the rarely used northern section on the photo charter.

The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway operating over approximately 1 mile of track from its headquarters at... (more)

Nuts And Bolts. #26's boiler, having been stripped down for overhaul for the past several years, is finally nearing the point of re-assembly. With the smokebox and front tube sheet... (more)

In 1803, when aged 22, George Stephenson was appointed as the Superintendent Engineer at Killingworth Colliery. Stephenson persuaded Sir Thomas Liddle, later Lord Ravensworth, that the colliery wo... (more)

The class 310s were often referred to as 'coffee grinders' this little 0-6-0T has outside Stephenson type valve gear (maybe a derivative straight link) and is seen here making a smokey departure f... (more)

Tanfield Railway's Friday evening photo shoot and Twizell is having its fire dropped.

Tanfield Railway's Friday evening photo shoot with all engines involved in steam for the camera. Guest engines are Sir Berkeley, back right, and J72 60923 in the foreground having its fire dropped... (more)

Locomotive is under steam for the first time in four years!

Tanfield Railway , the night before their gala hold an evening shoot for photographers when they warm up the engines ready for the day's events in the morning. Here is one of the guest engines Sir... (more)

Locomotive "Princess" heads the first train of the day along the southern end of Lake Windermere the largest lake in England.

33-504 and 62-123 in Bukinje

69023 is a member of the J72 class and has been recently restored to original condition by members of the NELPG. It is of a design that was first built in 1898 and building of these locomotives co... (more)

A panned shot of "Jinty" no. 47324 at Burrs, East Lancashire Railway, while working a Friday morning train from Heywood to Rawtenstall. If you look closely, you can see the fireman has a cup of te... (more)

Y112 trails a Sulky-Ballarat shuttle near North Ballarat junction at the Macarthur Street level crossing.

On it's first outing in 5 years, Y112 storms up grade out of Ballarat with a shuttle to Sulky, passing some of Ballarat's many statically preserved semaphore signals which have been blanked out wi... (more)