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)

Modified Hall class no. 7903 Foremarke Hall arrives at Toddington, in the Cotswolds on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway.

Modified Hall class no. 7903 Foremarke Hall leaves Broadway, in the Cotswolds on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway.

The first of the English Electric class Type 4 1-Co-Co1 no. D200 now preserved in the National Railway Museum's annexe at Locomotion, Shildon. The locomotive carries a reproduction headboard that ... (more)

Built for the London and South Western Railway’s Royal Train in 1885 it was altered to become Queen Victoria’s personal coach in her Golden Jubilee year, 1887. She used it to travel from Wate... (more)

Ex-Great Western "Manor" class no. 7828 Odney Manor runs round its train at Bishops Lidyeard on the West Somerset Railway

Ex-Great Western "Manor" class no. 7828 Odney Manor prepares to depart from Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway

An Engineers Train arrives at Porthmadog station on the Ffestiniog Railway. The train is full of "Youth Volunteers". The loco is Castell Harlech, an 0-6-0 Battery Diesel. Built by Bagu... (more)

Where it all started almost 200 years ago. This is the original World-famous Rocket locomotive. Winner of the 1829 Rainhill Trials. This 196 year old locomotive is on display at the National Rail... (more)

Wick is one of the most northerly Railway Stations in Britain. In the far North of Scotland, it is the end of the Far North Line. AT the end of the buffers inside the station, we see a mural of a ... (more)

Thurso is the most northerly station in Britain. Class 158717 waits to depart for Wick. From there it will retrace its steps to Thurso, than return to Inverness through dramatic country, passing m... (more)

An idyllic scene at Kyle of Lochalsh in the North of Scotland. A Class 158 awaits its return to Inverness from the terminus station by the dock. Behind you see the Isle of Skye., once only reachab... (more)

The fireman and trainee signal to the driver after switching the points on the ground frame as the loco waits to run around its stock at the East Somerset Railway