A 45 year old replica of the winner of the 1829 Rainhill Trials, Stephenson's Rocket. Seen at Beamish museum, with a period carriage and a rather ugly, modern DMU behind it.

200 years ago, In September 1825, Locomotion hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train on a public railway. It is now on displa... (more)

One of the world’s oldest working railway steam locomotives, Beamish Museum’s Coffee Pot No. 1 was built in 1871 on Teesside by Head Wrightson & Co for Dorking Greystone Lime Company for use a... (more)

Foremarke Hall #7903 was designed by F W Hawksworth, the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway and is a member of the Modified Hall class. The locomotive has been built at Sw... (more)

It is just past midnight as 37057 'Barbara Arbon', the last split-headcode-box class 37 on the mainline, sedately rumbles through Surbiton with the 3Q01 23:34 Woking - Eastleigh ultrasonic test tr... (more)

The last train of the day sees LMS 45596 'Bahamas' and LMS 42968 double heading the 2A38 16-15 Loughborough - Leicester North in glorious early evening sunlight during the Great Central Railway's... (more)

As a 10 year old trainspotter I 'kopped' LMS 42968 when it was allocated to Nuneaton MPD (2B) in 1962. Fast forward 63 years and here we see the said LMS 42968 currently running in it's original 1... (more)

LMS 45596 'Bahamas' departs with the 2A09 1030 Loughborough - Leicester North during the Great Central Railway's 'Bahamas Farewell Weekend'. LMS 45596 “Bahamas” was making its final runs befor... (more)

District Line service arriving at Wimbledon Park.

159007 passing Barnes with a diverted West of England service.

455915 passing Barnes.

450028 passing Barnes.

373219 on High Speed 1 between Ashford and Westenhanger.

374028 on High Speed 1 between Ashford and Westenhanger.

374002 approaching the Channel Tunnel.