The '4F' 0-6-0s of Midland Railway heritage were built in vast numbers by the LMS and had a number of well documented shortcomings. Quite probably performing better than ever she did 'back in the ... (more)

The crew of ex-Great Western Railway '1400' class 0-6-2 tank are having a little local difficulty with the crossing barriers, preventing them re-starting their train from Lydney Junction Station. ... (more)

Ex-Great Western Railway No.5521 'Prairie 2-6-2' tank looks an absolute treat as she leaves Whitecroft with a passenger train heading for Parkend. This really is a delightful location and one I mu... (more)

The Great Western Railway once operated a maze of lines radiating into the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. These forest lines threaded their way delightfully through the myriad of tiny villages... (more)

There is something gloriously dramatic about an express steam locomotive racing ahead of a threatening weather front. So it was at Burton Salmon as 'Duchess of Sutherland' headed south returning f... (more)

The dog daisies abound on the embankment as Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a very strange name for a Castle!) races purposefully back to Tyseley this evening after attending 'Railfest 2012' at York. Ther... (more)

If any photograph is worth a thousand words this is the one I'd choose. This remarkable scene was not 'set-up' or 'posed' in any way. This was everyday life in the Inner Mongolian village of Xiake... (more)

I couldn't let the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth pass without capturing something appropriately 'railway related'. On a rather misty afternoon, immaculately adorned (if a trifle g... (more)

The superb tram museum at Crich in Derbyshire is the setting for Chesterfield Corporation Tramways No.7, built in in 1904. It survived a depot fire and was replaced by trolleybuses in 1927, ending... (more)

It's a decade or two since steam passed this way. The 'Cathedrals Express' heads west crossing the canal at Woodnook. This is in the one mile section of line between the junctions at Methley (to t... (more)

The 'recreation' of titled trains of bygone years is a somewhat spurious practice in my judgement. My belief is that if you're on the train you can't see the headboard and if you're photographing ... (more)

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway extended their sphere of operations this weekend by running specials up the spectacularly beautiful Esk Valley as far as Battersby. With a deliciously moody backd... (more)

Britannia makes a fine sight as she glides round the curve at Fen Bog, complimented (?) by a rake of carmine and cream stock. At least that's the official description, but this was a colour scheme... (more)

The power and the glory. No finer sight and sound.

Just before we close the file (for the time being!) on the Great Northern Railway's elegant Atlantics, here's a fine study by an unknown photographer of 4419 in early LNER days. She's standing wit... (more)