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)

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

GWR King No 6024 King Edward I makes a storming entrance to Abergavenny Station with rare November snow on the track.

A total contrast to my last upload of a gently rusting TKt 48 baked under an Albanian summer sun, Here is GWR Castle Class No 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe with brass and paintwork gleaming in the l... (more)

A BMW X5!! Not quite more a HSH TKt 48 build in Poland in the early 1950s and exported to Albania. My last upload showed a smokebox with door open and glowing coals inside sadly this loco is unlik... (more)