The golden remains of the rapeseed crop complement the evening light as the Fridays only 1846 London Euston to Preston passes. The train today is a real mix, the coaches belong to Virgin, the loc... (more)

A rare burst of January sunshine catches a Newcastle to Plymouth service, formed of a 4 car class 220 and a 5 car class 221.The train,diverted because of engineering works,is running alongside the... (more)

Virgins loco hauled set only gets called in to action when disaster strikes. Pendolino 390004 derailed at Oxley depot and was damaged so the Mk3 'Pretendolino' set got an outing. It is seen waitin... (more)

The 14.00 Cardiff - Taunton loco hauled service passing Brent Knoll, in rural Somerset at speed.

90010 "275 Railway Squadron (Volunteers)"

47848 "Newton Abbot Festival of Transport"

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

A Virgin "Super Voyager" Class 221 awaits its evening departure to Birmingham from Preston.

After a series of mild, wet and gloomy winters, Britain has been hit by heavy snow and desperately low temperatures. This Voyager unit is forming a Birmingham-Glasgow service and is, like everythi... (more)

47747 named "Graham Farish" heads a virgin cross-country service south at Warkworth with a mixture of virgin and intercity liveried stock heading for Bournmouth .

47843 "Vulcan" Heads north at Grimsbury with a virgin cross country service the 06.00 London Paddington to Manchester Piccadilly .

Class 390 High Speed Pendolino

Due to an earlier train failure, the only loco hauled diagram left had to turn back to the Midlands at Milton Keynes. It is seen here after a layover in Oxley Traincare depot, and this was the ver... (more)

57 303 Alan Tracey heads a line of three members of the class, used as rescue locomotives in the event of train failures, at Euston station on the bank holiday weekend, when the train services wer... (more)

30 mins after my previous shot, the light was even more golden, but the storm clouds had receded. Due to engineering work on the normal route from London Euston to Birmingham, Virgin were running ... (more)