The 2.5 km. (1.5 mile) Forth Railway Bridge, the world’s first major steel bridge, with its gigantic girder spans of 521 m. (1710 ft.) ranks as one of the great feats of civilization. It was beg... (more)

The climb to Shap we always find a challenging photographic location. All the classic steam photographs of the 50 and 60s portray engines working hard against the gradient on these wild and remote... (more)

Scotland at its most picturesque, early Spring on the line to the Isle of Skye, with an appropriate Black 5 loco and train of maroon Mk 1 coaches crossing the yellow gorse lined causeway below Cra... (more)

Sporting the latest house colours which match the striking Murco TEA oil tanks 60007 rounds the Severn Estuary at Gatcombe, between Lydney and Gloucester.

Batley Viaduct was built in 1848 by the London & North Western Railway, with shared use by the Great Northern Railway whose lines (now closed) met with the L&NWR at Batley. The viaduct is on the m... (more)

Network 97301,formerly 37100,heads the Derby RTC to Grove Park test train through Wellingborough.

Network Rail 97301,ex-37100,approaches Wellingborough on the late running 10:10 Derby RTC to Selhurst Test Train.73138 is on the rear.

Locos 97302 and 97303 (formerly BR class 37's 37170 and 37178) roll off the Barmouth Bridge in Wales with train 6Z97 1200 Shrewsbury to Porthmadog.

Occupying it's own niche as a celebrity among the test train locos, I headed out to catch the loco on a very cold November morning as it headed from Tyseley-Exeter. Since these trains moved to sin... (more)

43013 leads the 1Z19 10:06 Plymouth – London Paddington NMT along the banks of the River Teign near Bishopsteignton on Friday 22nd October 2010. 43062 was on the rear.

43013 and 43014 crawls past Aykley Heads with the New Measurement Train

47709 (Iin Blue Pullman livery) stabled at Oxley.

MLVs are used extensively across the UK rail network for a variety of jobs, such as clearing railhead contamination. Here a pair of MLV vehicles are seen climbing the Lickey incline, but with only... (more)

Great Victorian Railway structures in Yorkshire No.1 - Dewsbury Viaduct. Built in 1848 by the London & North Western Railway, the viaduct is on the main line connecting Manchester and Leeds. Dewsb... (more)