Here is another photo of one of the Woodhead route electric locos. This time one of the seven express passenger Co-Co machines No 27002 seen pulling away from Penistone with a London Marylebone to... (more)

If you are of a nervous disposition please look away now! Former LMS Patriot class three-cylinder 4-6-0 No 45538 Giggleswick leaves the 1894 double double track bore of Standege tunnel with an eas... (more)

Having travelled from Kings Cross yesterday I thought I would turn the clock back 52 years to a photo I took of Gresley A4 Pacific No 60027 'Merlin' reversing out of the station after arrving with... (more)

The 08.27 Plymouth to Paddington HST has just passed Teignmouth on the South Devon coast formed of InterCity 125 set No 253 014 on a glorious summer day in August 1983. These very same trains are ... (more)

This must have been the perfect evening to bid farewell to the last train of this season's Scarborough Spa Expresses. 45305 heads eastward out of Leeds, catching the dying rays of the evening sun.... (more)

Just before we close the file (for the time being!) on the Great Northern Railway's elegant Atlantics, here's a fine study by an unknown photographer of 4419 in early LNER days. She's standing wit... (more)

This fine, atmospheric image taken in 1934 at King's Cross Station by an unknown photographer, shows the classic lines of Class A1 Pacific 'Dick Turpin' The locomotive is about to depart northward... (more)

West Country class 4-6-2, Holsworthy, sits on one of the locomotive shed tracks at Nine Elms.

A pair of Sulzer Type 4 locos (known as "peaks") head north through Gloucester in May 1968,a period of great change for the area. The leading loco,D65 "Grenadier Guardsman",was renumbered as 4511... (more)

Summer on the "English Riveria" appears to be in full swing as work-stained 50016, Barnham, passes the crowded beaches at Dawlish with a Paddington to Paignton service in July 1979.

From left to right 37712, 37711 and 37799 'Sir Dyfed/County of Dyfed' wait for their next turn at their home shed with five other class members.

A crash damaged 37011 stands on display at Crewe Works open day in 1987. The damage to the rear cab can just be seen and the locomotive was later withdrawn as a result. It was cut-up at J Rollason... (more)

Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal - Daventry southbound container train on the West Coast MainLine (WCML) hauled by one of this railroad company's locomotives in a special customer colour scheme.

A class 66 locomotive with a freight train heading south is caught on camera on the outskirts of Gloucester.

An old shot from 1982. The low January sun lights up the side of A4 streamliner no. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley, as it waits to depart from Hellifield with the Cumbrian Mountain Pullman, a main line sp... (more)