It's 564 miles by rail from Edinburgh to Plymouth,and 1V50,the 06.06 departure,has covered 385 of them by the time the train reaches Gloucestershire.Here the service,led by power car 43321,storms ... (more)

A wonderful burst of December sunlight illuminates 60091 as it hauls its train slowly back onto the main line,having been sidelined for a couple of express services.

6B13,the daily Robeston to Westerleigh Murco tank service,is still a solid class 60 working,and quite often produces one of the units returned to service during 2012.Here,one such example,60010,ex... (more)

36 years in service and still going strong.Class 43 power car 43042 was delivered new in February 1977,and one can only wonder how many miles it has covered in main line use.Here it leads the 10.3... (more)

After several weeks of rain,it was a pleasure to see the sun emerge,even though the railway system is falling to pieces due to flooding,landslides and other infastructure problems.Not a lot of tra... (more)

There are certain occasions when the weather is of the least concern when regarding photography - you're going to photograph the event come what may.Such was the occasion here,when "Castle" class ... (more)

On a rare sunny day,60059 "Swinden Dalesman" heads the Robeston to Westerleigh Murco tank train over the public crossing at Horton Road,Gloucester.Difficult to believe now,but the disused Horton R... (more)

Vintage Trains Ltd. ran "The Cotswold Explorer" excursion on the 20th October 2012.This was a railtour from Tyseley (Birmingham) to Gloucester and Oxford,and back to Tyseley.The motive power suppl... (more)

Engineering work on the Gloucester to South Wales line enabled this shot of a diverted 4V38,the Daventry to Wentloog (Cardiff) service.The train is approaching Standish Junction,where it will take... (more)

A First Great Western High Speed Train,led by power car 43056 "The Royal British Legion",races through Churchdown with the 19.00 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington service.An Arriva Cross Country... (more)

Under a threatening evening sky,D.B.S. class 66 no. 66040 rushes through Churchdown,on the outskirts of Gloucester,with a handful of empty steel wagons destined for South Wales.

DB Schenker class 66 no. 66054 drifts past the lower slopes of Chosen Hill,with John Daniels Way in the background.The loco is working 6V05,the return empties from Round Oak to Margam.

There's a storm erupting over Gloucester as First Great Western power car 43033 leads the 14.31 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington service past Naas Crossing.The train had left Gloucester five mi... (more)

Freightliner class 66 no. 66553 powers 4V47,a Rugely to Portbury train of empty coal hoppers, through the village of Haresfield,a few miles past Gloucester, on a fine Spring afternoon.

Due to 6B13,the Robeston to Westerleigh tank service,running some three hours late,it was possible,for once,to catch this shot from the other side of the line.