Charging toward the Lech-a-vute summit on a typically gloomy and damp autumnal Scottish morning, Black 5 No. 45407 leaves behind a long trail of smoke amongst the craggy lower slopes of Sgurr a'Mh... (more)

A chilly autumn morning made for a spectacular show as "Black 5" No. 45407 charged across Glenfinnan Viaduct with the daily Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig. Deep in Glen F... (more)

It wouldn't be a proper visit to the coast of Scotland without some rain. I got thoroughly drenched the last full day we were in the West Highlands standing on a few different hillsides waiting f... (more)

A chilly autumn morning made for a spectacular show as "Black 5" No. 45407 charged across Glenfinnan Viaduct with the daily Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig. Deep in Glen ... (more)

Like a scene from a storybook: "Black 5" No. 45407, named The Lancashire Fusilier, briefly pops out into daylight between the short Leachabhuidh Tunnels on a typically dreary day in ... (more)

A rare early start from West Wales, Ian Riley's pair of Black 5's with the Cathedrals Explorer make a wonderful sight along the coast at Ferryside

It's nearly 9pm and the last dying rays of evening sun impart blood red tones to the exhaust of ever-reliable 'Black 5' No.45407 as she thunders up the grade through the suburbs of Leeds heading f... (more)

This season's 'Scarborough Spa Express' has got away to a fine start if performances like this are anything to go by! Thundering up the grade from Wakefield, 45407 makes a fine sight heading for L... (more)

Mid Wales in spring time a pair of Black 5's cross Cynghordy Viaduct on the Central Wales Line

A location I have wanted to take for a long time the opportunity came on 10 July 2010 with the running of the Heart of Wales charter. The scene captures industrial dereliction with the Lightship w... (more)

The West Highland photo special is seen performing a spectacular runby on Rannch Moor, a mile or so south of Corrour. The weather was not kind that day but somehow added to the bleak but strangely... (more)

On the Saturday afternoon the weather was even more amazing than the morning. Most of the time one can hardly see across Loch Eil, one of many tidal inlets in North West Scotland, for rain or mist... (more)

In (very authentic) damp and overcast conditions, 45407 performs a runpast around the famous Horseshoe Curve on Scotland's magnificent West Highland Line, between Bridge of Orchy and Upper Tyndrum... (more)

Scotland's Rannoch Moor is wild, desolate, beautiful and largely inaccessible, punctuated only by the famous West Highland Line between Glasgow and Fort William. The line's engineers resorted to '... (more)

LMS Black 5 No 45407 crosses Loch Nam Uamh Viaduct in afternoon light, waited a long time to capture this scene with an afternoon westward train on the line between Fort William and Mallaig on the... (more)