A wonderful burst of December sunlight illuminates 60091 as it hauls its train slowly back onto the main line,having been sidelined for a couple of express services.

The 09.11 service from Nottingham to Cardiff speeds through the Worcestershire countryside on a bright but very cold December morning.

A short burst of sun on an otherwise dull and cloudy December day catches an Arriva Cross Country service from Cardiff to Nottingham as it approaches Northway Crossing,at Ashchurch.

6B13,the daily Robeston to Westerleigh Murco tank service,is still a solid class 60 working,and quite often produces one of the units returned to service during 2012.Here,one such example,60010,ex... (more)

36 years in service and still going strong.Class 43 power car 43042 was delivered new in February 1977,and one can only wonder how many miles it has covered in main line use.Here it leads the 10.3... (more)

After several weeks of rain,it was a pleasure to see the sun emerge,even though the railway system is falling to pieces due to flooding,landslides and other infastructure problems.Not a lot of tra... (more)

There are certain occasions when the weather is of the least concern when regarding photography - you're going to photograph the event come what may.Such was the occasion here,when "Castle" class ... (more)

The class 06 shunting locos were a fairly small class of 34 locos,and were found scattered all across Scotland.They were built by Andrew Barclay & Sons,and entered service at the end of the 1950s.... (more)

Getting photographs of trains on the Dean Forest Railway in the Forest Of Dean is notoriously difficult,mainly due to the density of the trees and undergrowth.One of the few places where it is pos... (more)

Commuters alight from a London Paddington to Bristol service at Didcot Parkway - as they do 5 days a week,4 weeks a month,11 months a year.Totally uninterseted in the railway environment,and the f... (more)

On a rare sunny day,60059 "Swinden Dalesman" heads the Robeston to Westerleigh Murco tank train over the public crossing at Horton Road,Gloucester.Difficult to believe now,but the disused Horton R... (more)

A pair of Freightliner class 86 electric locos,86609 and 86622,stand in Basford Hall Yard,at Crewe.This was taken during an official visit to the yard,and was the only time that the sun appeared d... (more)

Vintage Trains Ltd. ran "The Cotswold Explorer" excursion on the 20th October 2012.This was a railtour from Tyseley (Birmingham) to Gloucester and Oxford,and back to Tyseley.The motive power suppl... (more)

220024 approaches its Cheltenham stop with the 07.02 Paignton to Manchester Piccadilly service,whilst First Great Westerns 158766 heads to the west with the 08.50 Great Malvern to Westbury.

Engineering work on the Gloucester to South Wales line enabled this shot of a diverted 4V38,the Daventry to Wentloog (Cardiff) service.The train is approaching Standish Junction,where it will take... (more)