Canadian Northern Railway 4-6-0 No 171 is seen before the amalgamation with the Canadian Government Railway in 1919 when it became No 1231. It was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in 1907 ... (more)

LNER class A3 4-6-2 No 60097 Humorist over does it on Langley water troughs, just south of Stevenage with the down 'Yorkshire Pullman' from Kings Cross in 1950. Photo by the late Frank Hebron usi... (more)

A former London & North Western Railway G2a 0-8-0 (LMS 7F) passes Diggle Junction with a Liverpool to Leeds goods train that has come up from Stalybridge via the long closed Micklehurst loop. The ... (more)

Another of Chapelon's masterpieces, Pacific No 231 E 11 in ex-works condition, is shunted on to the turntable at Fives depot, Lille by an equally pristine 151TQ 0-8-0T during an RCTS visit. Photo ... (more)

This photo is from a postcard size glass negative by the late John Macartney Robbins who died in 1953. It shows an ancient Ouest Railway tank locomotive built by Buddicom of Rouen in 1844 during a... (more)

A veteran AT&SF 0-6-0 saddle tank photographed in pre-war days possibly in use as a stationery boiler. It was built by Hinkley in 1887 as an 0-6-0 and was later converted to a saddle tank.

On the last day trams ran in London, a number 72 for Savoy Street, Strand loads up on the Embankment with passengers eager to take their last tram ride. The tram carries Last Tram Week on the side... (more)

A nice little Pere Marquette Pacific is being prepared to work the 'Limited' at Chicago loco depot in the late 1930s. From a post card size negative by an unknown photographer

Reading class RSA-14 ALCo C424 No 5202 and Chesapeake & Ohio F7A No 7074 at an unknown location in the 1960s.

LMS class 3P 2-6-2T No 40057 at Measurements Halt the the Odham to Delph push/pull train in the early 1950s. This train was known locally as the Delph Donkey. The very basic Measurements Halt was ... (more)

A photo taken at the experimental Alweg monorail near Cologne during an RCTS visit. A DB bus waits below that was transporting the party. Photo by the late Peter Gray.

A remarkable looking ETAT, former Ouest Railway, 2-4-2 waits to leave Tours with a train omnibus for Sarge in 1935. There were originally 120 of these locos built as 2-4-0s in 1879-84 of which 20 ... (more)

Pere Marquette C-2 2-8-0 No 316 built by ALCo in 1904 is seen in the 1930s. This is another image from a post card size film negative by an unknown photographer.

DB diesel-hydraulic high speed rail car set No VT08 502 awaits to departure signal from the Fahrdienstleiter at Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf on the last lap of its journey from Bremen to Basel SBB in a... (more)

One of the Prussian G8-1 class of 0-8-0s given to the French railways as war reparations after the end of World War I, SNCF 040.D.21 rests at Fives depot, Lille during an RCTS visit. Originally 4,... (more)