A Beamish museum Christmas. Sunderland tram is at the 1913 Town tram stop waiting to carry visitors back to the musem entrance. A 1909 omnibus has just delivered more people to see how people in 1... (more)

Sunday was the last day of normal operation before the railway closes for three weeks to prepare for Santa specials . Here the first train of the day heads from East Tanfield station through Cause... (more)

Inside the tunnel. Class 4 75078 runs past on a photocharter

First day of Threlkeld Mining museum's gala and visiting narrow gauge locomotives OGWEN and MARCHLYN cross the museum road under the protection of a man with a red flag. The museum's own locomotiv... (more)

Southbound freight

There was a steam locomotive scheduled to pass over this bridge next month which I hoped to photograph but it has been put back to 2023 so here is a York to Harrogate service crossing last July

Calfornia Zephyr leaves Glenwood springs and heads eastwards for Denver

46115 is nearing the end of the long drag as it approaches Ais Gill summit in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales

Ais Gill summit is the end of the long climb for trains from Carlisle. It is called the Long Drag. 46115 arrives at the summit with its train after a delayed start of 95 minutes

It has been the tradition over recent years to run a charter train from London around the British mainland for 9 consecutive days , returning to London on the 9th day. Covid restrictios meant that... (more)

Marley Hill engine shed built in 1854 and has continuously housed steam locomotives since that time , making it the oldest working shed in the world. During the Covid lockdown it has been refurbis... (more)

Beamish museum's first event since the covid outbreak, held May 1 2021. Peckett 0-4-0 heads a load of chaldron wagons out of the colliery yard

Meanwhile in the yard at Beamish the coffee pot locomotive is waiting for a traction engine to clear the tracks, which had been used to lift loads hauled by the narrow gauge locomotive "Peter... (more)

It is Beamish Museum's annual steam weekend and this year there is a great deal of activity concentrating on the road side of things. Not much is taking place on rails. One of the guests to the pa... (more)

6233 heads a special to Carlisle over the Eden Lacy viaduct