Fall is starting to show its true colours as this Ottowa Valley freight heads through Rutherglen with a Huron Central unit in the lead

Borrowed OVR locomotive leading as the daily freight heads towards the Soo.

Fresh into service a Hitachi class 800 rounds the seawall south of Dawlish with a train for Plymouth.

Last weekend saw the annual 1940's weekend on Wensleydale railway. In the towns and villages along the line people were wearing period costume, stalls and shops were decorated with flags and bunti... (more)

Ridin' the switchback

At the gala the home locomotives also had a run out. Here Cochrane and No 2 are in harness with a passenger set. Or as a certain member might say"2 Percy's"

The other guest engine at the gala No 15 runs under Gibraltar Bridge on its way to Marley Hill shed, leaving its coaches for another locomotive

Tanfield Railway's annual gala saw two visiting steam engines, one of which, No 60 is shown here passing what was once the site of the railway's steam shed. 60 years ago this was a three track lay... (more)

A little piece of history being made. South Tynedale railway inherited the branch line from Alston to Haltwhistle in the North of England after British Railways closed it down in 1976. The standa... (more)

On the left locomotive "JACK LANE" heads up the grade and past locomotive"STATFOLD". Both the subject of my last photograph from Beamish museum

A couple of weeks ago Beamish museum held its annual steam fair. Two guest locomotives came from the Statfold Barn museum and they have yet to return. The two men in charge of the railways at Beam... (more)

The second day of Beamish musem's four day Festival of Steam. Scene is of the colliery yard where locomotive "Lewin" is bringing in a rake of Chaldron wagons which the coffee pot(red loc... (more)

Going back a bit. Grain train heads for Vancouver along the Fraser river and the glorious Highway 1