1957 or 2007? Perhaps only the cleanliness of the right hand loco gives the game away as two charter freights cross on the preserved double-track Great Central Railway.
With its exhaust trailing back at least as far as Colton Junction in the cool, still morning air, 'Duchess of Sutherland' accelerates away from York with a train for Carlisle.
The local lads break off from their hillside games to watch a storming climb out of Nefasit by two Mallet tanks. The train has just come round a large horseshoe curve, the other side of which can ... (more)
Parallel departure from Eisfelder Talmühle, with 99 5906 on a photo charter and 99 7234 on a Nordhausen to Wernigerode passenger working.
The Jacobite steam train is starting the climb to Glenfinnan, with Loch Eil and the Nevis Range in the background. View is from Meall na h-Airigh.
Wild flowers carpet the Pennine hills as Black 5 45407 climbs to Standedge tunnel with a Liverpool to Hebden Bridge excursion.
Morning runpast at Rooicranz ("Red Wall") on the line east from Oudtshoorn through the Little Karroo.
The star visiting loco. at the Great Central Railway's Winter Gala was Q6 63395, once a stalwart of coal haulage in the north east of England. Recreating those days of more than 40 years ago, the ... (more)
A close-up of the large Mallet tank as it comes off the 14 arch bridge.
Two farmworkers pause to watch an NGG11 Garratt as it climbs towards Ncalu on the Paton's Country Railway.
The first 'Scarborough Spa Express' of the 2008 season accelerates past Strensall Common behind unrebuilt Battle of Britain class Pacific 'Tangmere'.
Chunky tank 99 6001 waits for departure time at Alexisbad with the 18.42 to Harzgerode.
A4 Pacific 'Union of South Africa' speeds through Strensall on the York to Scarborough leg of the Scarborough Spa Express.
Small Mallet 440.008 engages in some shunting at Ghinda, while large Mallet 442.59 waits to take a train down to the coast at Massawa.
Mallet tank 442.59 pulls into Baresa station with its charter train.
