The all important and useful wheel barrow no steam depot can be without them

Not pretty, not glamorous, perhaps not even interesting, but still part of the overall rail scene. A Class 150 unit operated by Network West Midlands, climbs Old Hill Bank on an early morning loca... (more)

My last upload showed two steam locos passing. this shows the transition between steam and diesel, as 0039 hauling a ballast train passes an SY Class just outside Tiefa station. Though this is sli... (more)

This was an incredible experience to stand between two steam locos on the Huanan Forestry Railway

7am and still virtually dark on a freezing foggy November morning in Fuxin, China. SY Class No 1378 is ready with a loaded train of coal. Once scenes like this were common all over the world certa... (more)

Dawn with an SY Class descending the incline from the spoil tip

Climbing steadily a Black 5 makes a fine sight in afternoon autumn sunshine between Fort William and Mallaig on the West Highland extension

A wide angle view of A4 60019 Bittern accelerating through the suburbs of Bath watched by a lone viewer from the footbridge

BR Class 8 Pacific No 71000 Duke of Gloucester simmers in Bury Bolton Street having worked in the last train of the day.

The Great Reunion. This was the unique occasion in steam preservation when 4 A4 Pacifics 60022 Mallard, 60019 Bittern, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60009 Union of South Africa lined up at the Natio... (more)

Charolais Coal’s former IC SW9’s sit outside the old maintenance building exposed to the elements. The 2 locomotives plus a third unit that was used for parts are land locked by the abandonme... (more)

The weather forecast was set for day of grey misty gloom but high up in Cumbrian Mountains on the climb to Shap Summit the sun broke through briefly just as the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express pa... (more)

The first rays of sun glint on A4 60009 Union of South Africa and K4 No 61994 Great Marquess as they cross Findhorn Viaduct

Sometimes we ask ourselves why we do it, standing in a freezing field before dawn. this is one of the reasons. The sound of the double header could be heard several miles away as ever rising roar,... (more)

With the semaphore signal pulled off A4 No 60009 Union of South Africa and K4 No 61994 Great Marquess restart the Great Britain Railtour watched by an admiring crowd