This is the 'Keighley & Worth Valley 40th Anniversary Special' running through the heavily cambered curves at Elsecar, deep in the heart South Yorkshire. Little trace remains to tell the casual ob... (more)
As one gets closer to the steel furnaces, a mass of overhead wires, gantries, cranes and pipes, make photography 'challenging'. Benxi's fleet of SY's have been re-numbered in a 7xx series. Here, d... (more)
Benxi steelworks is set on a broad open plain ringed by hills. It is almost unimaginably huge by any standards, extending as far as the eye could see. Expansion of the complex was continuing at a ... (more)
The gigantic cutting to the east of Lindong is the backdrop to westbound QJ 6828. She is hauling a wonderfully colourful mixed train and the driver has just eased off the regulator as 6828 will ta... (more)
Morning cuppa' at Ramsbottom.
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway class 27 were the railway's standard goods engine designed by John Aspinall. 484 of these simple but powerful engines had been bu... (more)