46115 Scots Guardsman threads through th ebleak Yorkshire landscape, just after crossing the famous Ribblehead viaduct, on the Settle to Carlisle route, working the southbound Winter Cumbrian Expr... (more)

I doubt if I've ever seen such an exhibition of uphill power from Scots Guardsman. Not only was it a quite wonderful spectacle to behold, but the sound as the train approached was arguably even be... (more)

Bright sunshine at 1:15 p.m. illuminates the large crowd and two of the six A4 Pacifics on Friday at Shildon. Both of these locomotives and Bittern were steamed up.

Three of the six A4 Pacifics are lined up at Shildon on the Friday of the celebration, "The Great Goodbye". The engines are Sir Nigel Gresley, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bittern. The lighting was po... (more)

The story of Ribblehead Viaduct is the stuff of legend. It cost 100 lives of the 'navvies' that built it between 1870 and 1874 and as many more amongst their wives and families living in the shant... (more)

Limestone rock characterises the Settle and Carlisle route for much of its length, particularly at higher altitudes. Over countless millennia water has eroded the rock surface into these formation... (more)

The 'long view' at Birkett Common is just as dramatic as the wider scene more commonly photographed. The characteristic and ancient dry stone (no mortar) walls are a particularly attractive featur... (more)

It's a 250 mile round trip from 'Armitage Villas' to the wonderfully peaceful Eden Valley in Cumbria, so the weather forecast plays a big part in the decision making process! Today it turned out t... (more)

Just the occasional glimmer of sunshine was sufficient for me to make the 100 mile round trip to the East Lancashire Railway. The only 'glimmer' in the entire day fortuitously coincided with the p... (more)

Built by English Electric,and introduced in February 1963,Class 37 No. D6811 stands underneath the coaling stage at Saltley depot,Birmingham,in March 1969.Although steam use had ceased the previou... (more)

Introduced in 1961,the class 35 "Hymeks" were fitted with Maybach MD870 engines,rated at 1740 h.p.,making them ideal mixed traffic locos.101 examples were built,but the fact that they were hydraul... (more)

In an uncharacteristically bright interlude between the seemingly endless dreary weather, two of Britain's classic 4-6-0 'Mixed Traffic' locomotives cross the River Irwell. Formerly with rival com... (more)

Preserved AC electrics 84001 and 85006 stand in the yard at Barrow Hill durning a WNXX.com photoshoot

Evening Star, Class 9F. 2-10-0 built in 1960 and it was the last steam locomotive to be built for British Railways. It was only in service for five years as it was withdrawn in 1965. It has been ... (more)

It's entirely appropriate that 'Oliver Cromwell' should so triumphantly raise battle echoes of old at this location. Charging through pastoral farmland below the ruins of Beeston Castle, a fortifi... (more)