Beamish Museum is holding a four day Power from the Past event over this weekend. Here is a view of the colliery area where the "coffee pot" is doing some shunting of wagons, a couple of narrow ga... (more)

Beamish Museum is holding a four day Power from the Past event over this weekend. Star attraction is the newly restored "Coffee Pot" which was originally built in 1871 and worked til the mid 60's ... (more)

At the bottom end of Lake Windermere, 0-6-0ST Cumbria hauls a train for Haverthwaite out of Lakeside station.

I purchased a box of negatives at an antiques fair and found that , among the wedding and sightseeing pictures, there were a decent number of steam locomotive images. This is the first one I have ... (more)

I have been scanning some of my old transparencies recently and this one comes from a fortnight's trip in the Rockies back in 1998. Canadian National freight heads for Kamloops alongside the Frase... (more)

Virgin class 43 heads south with a cross country train on a clear January day

Sun finally came out to shine on this Santa Special heading for Andrews House from East Tanfield the day before Christmas Eve. It was quite deep and I spent the afternoon in the red suit with free... (more)

It is not often we get the chance to run Santa Specials in the snow. Speaking as a Santa myself I hope it lasts until I do my shift on Wednesday. No need to make up answers to the question "how do... (more)

It had been a cloudy grey day and I hadn't intended to visit the Bowes Railway Coal train day. Late in the afternoon I decided to go and was rewarded with the sight of the last train of the day in... (more)

Back at Croxdale viaduct the light was fading fast, but just enough to capture this class 91 heading for London

Even more snow up in the Pennines so I paid a visit to South Tynedale railway to visit their Santa Special trains. Locomotive Helen Kathryn was used and looked splendid set off against the white o... (more)

With a sprinkling of snow today I thought to go out and take a few pictures. Here is a Freightliner owned class 66 heading north with an empty coal train for Tyne Dock passing over Croxdale viaduc... (more)

The lights of Tyneside turn the night sky orange as W.S.T waits in Bowes railway yard for its turn to enter the engine shed.

The windows in the Golden Spike National Park visitor's centre reflect the two locomotives that are in steam and waiting to run past the small congregation of visitors that have gathered to see th... (more)