Green Dragon is an eco-friendly steam locomotive as it burns wooden briquettes,lots of them.(Driver is sitting on some of them. )Used by South Tynedale railway it had a trip out today but had the ... (more)

South Tynedale goes green with its latest locomotive Green Dragon. An 0-4-2 loco which burns wood briquettes or Biomass. There have been a year or more of teething troubles but it has been turned ... (more)

A little piece of history being made. South Tynedale railway inherited the branch line from Alston to Haltwhistle in the North of England after British Railways closed it down in 1976. The standa... (more)

A SLICE OF HISTORY. In 1976 the last train ran along the 18 mile line from Haltwhistle to Alston. Attempts were made to preserve it as a standard gauge railway but the line was quickly ripped up. ... (more)

Bright blue sky and sunshine are rare on the South Tynedale railway, normally clouds are everywhere but yesterday was a beautiful day. Locomotive Barber heads a train for Alston out of Lintley via... (more)

Barber heads toward Gilderdale viaduct with the second train of the day. This unusual locomotive has recently been restored and features a cut down cab, so cut down that the driver has to lean out... (more)

Barber, recently restored, heads a service train towards Kirkhaugh station.

A bit of industrial railway history. Leading locomotive HARROGATE worked at Harrogate Gas works. It has been restored and is now at Statfold Barn in Staffordshire. Second locomotive also worked at... (more)

May 1 and there is snow on the hill tops. Guest engine HARROGATE heads the morning train back to Alston running through the lovely North Pennine countryside

Thomas Edmundson catches the late afternoon sunshine as it heads back to Alston with its train over Gilderdale viaduct

Santa Specials began on the South Tynedale railway on Saturday, locomotive Thomas Edmondsen was at the south facing end and a small diesel faced north. Made the journey much quicker being top and ... (more)

Guest locomotive Feldbahn 1091 heads the first train back to Alston on Remembrance Sunday

South Tynedale railway had a guest locomotive last weekend. Darjeeling No 19 , an 0-4-0 which used to work in the Himalayas. Gentle hills of Northumberland were of no consequence to this delightfu... (more)

A weekend of World War 1 anniversary events is taking place at South Tyendale Railway. A guest engine, 0-6-0 JOFFRE has been added to the roster and is being used on services over the next three d... (more)

On loan locomotive Harrogate hauls a service train back to Alston past the site of the original terminus built in 1989