It is not often we get the chance to run Santa Specials in the snow. Speaking as a Santa myself I hope it lasts until I do my shift on Wednesday. No need to make up answers to the question "how do... (more)

It is Tanfield Railway's gala weekend and it always begins with a Friday shoot from 6-10 pm. Here is the lineup outside the depot with a traction engine, soon to be running Twizell, Renishaw and N... (more)

Locomotive No 49 waits at Andrews House with a service train. It will pass under the bridge and go over the last remnant of the line down to Bowes Railway and the river Tyne at Jarrow. The green b... (more)

49 enters Marley Hill shed after a days work on the line.

Sir Cecil A Cochrane and the guest engine 813 sit in Marley Hill shed yard on the evening of the Tanfield railway annual night shoot.

Sir Cecil A Cochrane prepares to depart Andrews House station with a train for Sunniside.

Stagshaw in the lead with Renishaw behind create a huge amount of "clag" as they head for Andrews House station

Sir CecilA Cochrane heads a passenger train up the severe bank from east tanfield.

Night falls as the light from the coach shed highlights the name of Sir Cecil Cochrane, one of the fleet of Tanfield railway

Flying high above Tanfield railway and the Beamish Mary pub. No 49 heads its train back to Andrews House.

Renishaw sits in Marley hill shed as No 49 comes in after working the day's trains. I have used photoshop to give the old world sepia effect.

No 49 hauls a coal train on Tanfield railway and the steam causes a magpie to take evasive action

Here is the other guest engine Furness railway No 20 bringing ina train into Andrews House station on their gala day.

Two guest engines visited tanfield for their gala last year. here is Bellerophon entering East Tanfield with a service train.

Raising steam for the 2007 gala. 4 locomotives in the shed yard