I consider myself a fortunate soul indeed, living as I do, so close to the route taken by the 'Scarborough Spa Express'. The last rays of the evening sun lend a lovely rose glow to 'Leander' and h... (more)

I was working 'lates', so I was able to catch the morning leg of the 'Scarborough Spa Express' sprinting downhill through the suburb of Headingley, famous for being the home of Yorkshire's County ... (more)

The stunning combination of maroon stock and locomotive is a joy to behold as 'Jubilee' No.5690 'Leander' leans to the heavily cambered curve at Church Fenton. She has just taken the Leeds line wi... (more)

This is the Calder Valley scene of my youth. Another westbound train of coal plods wearily past Mirfield on a bright March day. In the left distance is the long demolished Ravensthorpe power stati... (more)

Hest Bank crossing footbridge is still a great place to watch West Coast main line action. Left of the signal box were the water troughs and Hest Bank Station is on the right. This view is taken f... (more)

This ballast train is entering an apparently deserted Manchester Victoria from the east, having descended the notorious Miles Platting bank. The severity of the descent can clearly be seen in this... (more)

This is Skipton, self-styled 'Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales'. Beautiful clouds herald a lovely May afternoon as '8F' No.48622, still fitted with her snowplough, passes westward with coal from the... (more)

Benxi steelworks' fleet of SY 2-8-2's has (had?) its own numbering system. A bit of detective work shows No.716 to be the former SY 0578, a 1972 product of Tangshan works. On a beautiful, crisp bu... (more)

When not munching on sweet Yorkshire grass, this is the view enjoyed by contented cows looking down the lower Worth valley towards Ingrow and Keighley. 'Black 5' No.45212 is striding purposefully ... (more)

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway celebrated its 40th anniversary this June. Whilst all of the celebrations did not pass without mishap, the 'Re-Opening Special' ran as planned. Remarkably, the ... (more)

This is the 'Keighley & Worth Valley 40th Anniversary Special' running through the heavily cambered curves at Elsecar, deep in the heart South Yorkshire. Little trace remains to tell the casual ob... (more)

As one gets closer to the steel furnaces, a mass of overhead wires, gantries, cranes and pipes, make photography 'challenging'. Benxi's fleet of SY's have been re-numbered in a 7xx series. Here, d... (more)

Benxi steelworks is set on a broad open plain ringed by hills. It is almost unimaginably huge by any standards, extending as far as the eye could see. Expansion of the complex was continuing at a ... (more)

The gigantic cutting to the east of Lindong is the backdrop to westbound QJ 6828. She is hauling a wonderfully colourful mixed train and the driver has just eased off the regulator as 6828 will ta... (more)

Morning cuppa' at Ramsbottom. The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway class 27 were the railway's standard goods engine designed by John Aspinall. 484 of these simple but powerful engines had been bu... (more)