Back in 1980, Driver Mather of Saltley depot prepares to take 31121 from Daw Mill colliery to Washwood Heath yard in Birmingham. The train is unfitted (brakes only on the loco and caboose). 31121 ... (more)

Hard to believe that these units are now 25 years old. Here, 165035 leaves Oxford for London Paddington in 1992. A sister "Turbo" unit is stabled in the sidings on the left.

HST power cars 43020 and 43021 are on a test run from Derby works. Seen at Saltley, Birmingham in 1980.

A DMU in a short-lived colour scheme is seen stabled at Birmingham New St station in 1982.

A busy scene at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham, in 1982. 25206 passes with a train of oil tanks. 20153 heads a coal train in the opposite direction

HST power car 43166 leads a westbound cross country service out of Newton Abbot in 1982. Still plenty of semaphore signals at this time, they lasted until 1987. 43166 is still working this same ro... (more)

Redditch station, in the English midlands, has changed much since this 1982 view. The route is now electrified and the stone sidings are long gone. Here we see a 3 car DMU on a service to Four Oak... (more)

On the first weekend of the Watercress Line 'Southern Steam Gala' to mark the passing of steam traction on the Southern Region of BR 34053 'Sir Keith Park' is in action with the last train of the ... (more)

Grim working conditions at Round Oak steelworks in the English midlands. 47350 (far left) waits to leave for Washwood Heath yard, near Birmingham, as 2 of the steelworks own shunting locos prepare... (more)

Sprinter No 150124 arrives at Worcester Forgate St on the 1105 Great Malvern to Birmingham New St. The track layout is unusual here, as it is 2 separate single lines, one to serve Shrub Hill stati... (more)

Photo taken from an engineering train at London Waterloo in 1983. EMU No 508 019 leaves for Staines.

Today there is a public Open Day at Polmadie depot, Glasgow. In connection with this, a thirteen-coach private charter train has run up to Glasgow. I have just alighted from it, having travelled... (more)

I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time, to see 20170 slowly pass by Derby station with just one wagon in tow. It was running on the freight lines to the east side of th... (more)

Back in 1986, EMU No 2306 leads the 1255 London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour, fast, out of Clapham Junction. Clapham Junction is the busiest station in Europe for amount of trains.

56003 departs Kingsbury, Warwickshire, with a train of scrap metal and coal. Also visible are 2 class 31s awaiting their oil train, and a class 58 on a Baddesley colliery to Didcot coal train. 560... (more)