On well maintained track, lengthening afternoon shadows draw the outline of 90351, one of the 730 'Austerity' 2-8-0's. She plods wearily north from Royston with another load of coal from the Barns... (more)

Ex-LMS 'Jubilee' No.45562 'Alberta' with seven coaches on the drawbar, rolls into Barnsley from the South. She will probably be heading on to Wakefield Kirkgate and Leeds. I am enjoying posting th... (more)

Five days after my 17th birthday and I'd gone south - well as far south as Sheffield anyway. Hey! c'mon it was a big journey in those days! One of the series of Ex-LMS Jubilees named after States ... (more)

This is the landscape of my youth. The embankment from which this view was taken was my haunt. Me, my bicycle, a can of 'pop' a few sandwiches and an endless procession of trains. Mostly westboun... (more)

The impending end of steam saw many 'specials' such as this 'William Deacon's Bank Club' tour for bank employees. Rebuilt 'Merchant Navy' class 4-6-2 No.35026 'Lamport & Holt Line' is hundreds of ... (more)

At Thornton Junction shed, it was what locals would describe as a "grotty" day. Steam and smoke drift about the depot from the locomotives and the adjacent steam crane. Former North British Railwa... (more)

The East Lancashire Railway has convincingly recreated the late 40's with a pair of Black 5's in both LMS an early BR liveries. Brooksbottom viaduct can usually be relied on to offer a great image... (more)

The sole surviving LMS 'Mogul', a 1933 design by Sir William Stanier, forges uphill past Cliviger towards Copy Pit. She is heading eastbound for the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary across the Pennin... (more)

This pleasant little footpath that meandered almost into the heart of Bury has now all but disappeared to encroaching urbanisation. It has been a casualty of the ghastly 'tin shed' syndrome that c... (more)

Undergoing repair in Pemberton depot is 2-8-0 No.3716. She was originally built in 1912 by Montreal Locomotive as a Class N3b coal-burner. She was rebuilt in 1929 and reclassified N2b. Later in he... (more)

Standing in this spot today you'd see . . . very little! The MPD has long been razed to the ground replaced by silver birch saplings that obscure any view of the flat hinterland beyond. Once a sig... (more)

After leaving Bury, the third crossing of the River Irwell is this fine bridge at Summerseat. It was a lovely but bitingly cold and frosty morning as I stood in the river. I was waiting for the sp... (more)

Whilst holidaying in Denmark we stumbled upon a lovely preserved 'Veterenbanen' railway line that runs from Bryrup to Vrads, near the regional town of Silkeborg. They have two of these wonderful '... (more)

A dozen or so locals have turned out to witness the impressive sight of BR-built 'Clun Castle'. She is passing the West Riding mining village of Lofthouse on the northbound leg of a Kings Cross to... (more)

This is a lost landscape from South Yorkshire. Steam had been eliminated from British Railways for a couple of years, but in 1970 it still lingered on in dozens of collieries throughout Britain. D... (more)