Black Five no 45231 approaches Warrington with the first stage of the Welsh Mountaineer main line special from Preston to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The East Lancs Railway has won a contract to supply locomotives for engineering trains on the neighbouring Metrolink tramway system. They will use preserved diesel locos for the work. Here we see ... (more)

An old shot from 1979. Merchant navy no. 35028 Clan Line has spent most of its life in the South of England. On a rare visit North, it is here at the coaling plant at Carnforth Steamtown in the d... (more)

BR tank engine 80002, climbs out of Keighley with a train for Oxenhope on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Black Five no. 44806 prepares to leave Grosmont with a service to Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, as a Class 37 passes on the other track.

An old shot from October 1982, taken at the now defunct Dinting Railway Centre. Webb 'Coal Tank' no. 1054, built in 1888 and LNER designed pacific no. 532 Blue Peter give brake van rides for the p... (more)

This little engine, LNWR Precedent Class, no. 790 Hardwicke, took place in the "Races To The North" late in the 19th Century. Now preserved at the National Railway Museum at York, it is seen here ... (more)

The strong January sun lights up Black Five no. 45231 with high contrast at Ramsbottom station on the East Lancashire Railway.

The winter sun lights up an 87 as it dashes South with an express past Springs Branch MPD. Unfortunately, this is well and truly Pendolino territory now.

46115 Scots Guardsman speeds through Brock at about 70 mph with the Preston to Glasgow section of the Great Britain II mammoth main line tour.

5690 Leander waits at the signals before it can proceed to Bury Bolton Street Station at the Winter Steam Spectacular.

A4 no. 60010 Dominion of Canada, visiting the UK from Montreal, faces the lights and gallery of photographers at the night photoshoot at the National Railway Museum annex at Locomotion, Shildon, C... (more)

46115 Scots Guardsman threads through th ebleak Yorkshire landscape, just after crossing the famous Ribblehead viaduct, on the Settle to Carlisle route, working the southbound Winter Cumbrian Expr... (more)

From time to time, the National Railway Museum at York loans out locomotives to heritage railways and preservation centres. Here is an example, Midland Compound no. 1000 is on loan to the centre a... (more)

GWR 4-4-0 no. 3440 City of Truro was apparently the first locomotive to reach 100mph. This was in 1904, but the information was not released to the public at that time for fear of spreading panic ... (more)