50031 and D444 shunting between platforms at Crewe.

My 1,000th photo on the RP database and a blast from the past. On a Saturday afternoon in October 1980, class 47 no. 47 555 The Commonwealth Spirit passes the signal box and enters Chester station... (more)

A view of a Virgin Pendolino at Stockport on a Manchester to London service, taken from an Aer Lingus A320 returning from Dublin.

A Colas Rail log train passing Chester Racecourse.

On a rainy, murky evening, 46233 Duchess of Sutherland makes her way through Winwick, Warrington with her support coach. The loco had just come off a railtour and was heading for her current opera... (more)

A loaded gypsum train with 54 'boxes' on FEA flat wagons heads for Ellesmere Port to allow the locomotive to run round and head north on to the WCML, bound for the British Gypsum plant at Kirkby T... (more)

Class 40 no. 40 088 was scrapped well over 20 years ago. The cab was rescued and mounted onto a road vehicle as a publicity display for the Class 40 Preservation Society, which owns, runs and main... (more)

An old shot from 1978. GWR "Castle" class no 7029 Clun Castle is seen reversing at Chester Station. The loco, with it's Pullman support coach was reversing onto the stock of a railtour which it wa... (more)

A pair of 40+ year-old Freightliner class 86 AC electrics hurtles towards the setting sun as evening mist drifts across the tracks.

A colourful rake of empty ballast boxes are hustled south on the West Coast Mainline by a Freightliner Heavy-Haul class 66/6, headed for a re-fill at the Mountsorrel quarry in Leicestershire.

A DRS, GM-built class 66 hustles its intermodal train southwards on the West Coast Main Line across the easy gradients of the Cheshire plain.

LMS pacific no. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland approaches Broughton, near Chester, with the Welsh Dragon railtour.

LMS pacific no. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland heads The Welsh Dragon at Broughton, near Chester. At the rear of the train, nearest the camera, is ex-Royal Train loco no. 47 798 Prince William. Abou... (more)

A scene from back in June 1981 at the Open Day at Crewe Works. Some of the celebrity locos on display are seen here. On the right is green Class 40 no 40 106. On the left is the replica of Sans Pa... (more)

A scene from back in June 1981 at the Crewe Works Open Day. Class 86 no. 86 235 Novelty in its special livery to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Ra... (more)