Britannia Standard Class 7 Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell emerges out its own steam with a service for Leicester North on the first day of the Great Central Railways Winter Gala event

57601 brings up the rear of Spitfire Railtours Exeter - Preston tour as it rounds the sharp curve at Crofton. This was a fare paying positioning move for the locos and rolling stock that had been ... (more)

66168 catches the early morning sun nicely as it passes Manor Farm bridge near Cholsey with 6X44, a Southampton - Warrington Arpley working loaded with new Fords

60015 catches a lucky patch of weak sunshine on an otherwise dull, damp day while working 6B33, the Theale - Robeston empty tanks past the site of Chipping Sodbury station between Swindon and the ... (more)

Rebuilt Merchant Navy Class pacific 35028 Clan Line cruises down the Great Western mainline between Reading and Didcot with an Orient Express excursion from London Victoria to Oxford. The coaching... (more)

A colourful Z27500 EMU catches the glorious evening sushine as it crosses, and is reflected in the Burgundy canal at Lezinnes between Montbard and Tonnerre

A TGV heads east towards Montbard and Paris near Mont Auxois which is behind and to the right of the photographer. Mont Auxois is now accepted as the location of the Gallic leader Vercingetorix's ... (more)

Verrey-sous-Salmaise lies on the climb to Blaisy-Bas, part of the classic main line from Paris to Dijon. In fact the line runs right through the middle of the place, making the small wayside stati... (more)

Sybic BB 26054 heads towards Paris with an overnight train from Italy at Aisy-sur Armancon. Earlier, just after dawn, I bumped into another RP photographer in the middle of a field in rural France... (more)

A BB7200 in En Voyage livery passes westward in the late evening light past the village of Cry-sur-Armancon. This was shot from the car as we moved between locations.

An westbound TGV passes the junction at Buffon near Montbard shortly before sunset. I went back to this location 3 evenings running to try and get a perfect glint shot. This was the nearest I got,... (more)

Unbranded livery BB 27141 rounds the curve at Fulvy with an eastbound intermodal. While evening provided a steady stream of westbound freights during my visit, this intermodal was one of the few r... (more)

A TGV set pases through fields of wheat made golden by the setting sun. The village of Buffon is in the background. The line of trees in the middle distance marks the course of the Burgundy canal ... (more)

A warm June evening sees this BB 27000 class electric locomotive in Fret livery run light engine westward past the village of Argenteuil-sur-Armancon on the classic line from Paris to Dijon

GE built 70001 powers past Cholsey with a well loaded 4M99, Southampton - Trafford Park intermodal service on a cool, but sunny spring evening. Surprisingly, I had this vantage point to myself ... (more)