It was the Summer of Love and I was greeted at Torun station by a couple of my soon to be students, carrying a bunch of carnations. They looked in horror as I ignored their greetings so that I cou... (more)

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)

Heading for Keystone the second train of the day out of Hill City with Mallett No 110 in charge.

The Great Gathering once more

Duke of Gloucester crossing Ribblehead viaduct with a train for Carlisle from York

It is Beamish Museum's annual steam weekend and this year there is a great deal of activity concentrating on the road side of things. Not much is taking place on rails. One of the guests to the pa... (more)

A meet on the Fraser river.

Coal train snakes its way towards Denver

Newest steam locomotive Tornado heading to Newcastle over the Durham viaduct on its maiden passenger carrying turn.

The Summer of Love and for the Southern Region of British Railways there was less than a month before the end of steam operations. I made a trip to Basingstoke to take some pictures before the end... (more)

Tanfield Railway's Friday evening photo shoot with all engines involved in steam for the camera. Guest engines are Sir Berkeley, back right, and J72 60923 in the foreground having its fire dropped... (more)

Black 5 heads away from Levisham with a train on a Matt Fisher charter

Because the guest engines at Beamish museum's Festival of Steam ran on 15 inch gauge track it meant that for the first time locomotives with three different guages could be seen in one palce. Here... (more)

The chair in front of the fire is for her man when he returns from driving an early steam locomotive as they had no protection for the crew. The 0-4-0 locomotive in the shed illustrates this perfe... (more)

My apologies if I have the type of loco incorrect, I am not well versed on Canadian types