DB 01 Pacific No 01 171 is seen in Frankfurt (M) Hbf after arrival with an Eilzug. Photo by the late Peter Gray.

The eighth of the famous Gresley LNER Pacifics to be built, No 1477N stands on the recently installed 70ft turntable at Kings Cross station in London. The loco was completed at the Company's Plant... (more)

One of the prototype DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic prototype locos, No V200 001 built by Krauss Maffei that entered service in 1954, is seen at an unknown location in its early days. (photographer un... (more)

Est Railway 4-6-2 No 31023 waits at La Villette ready to reverse down to the Gare de l'Est, Paris in 1934. It was one of 40 Pacifics built in 1914-23 that later became SNCF class 231B and were sup... (more)

Another anonymous negative in my archive that I know little about. FEC 235 is behind No 621 which I imagine is an EMD SW1200. Photographer unknown.

Dawn has just broken as former Nord Railway Pacific No 231.C.17 from the first batch of so called Super Pacifics built in 1923-24 appears to be making an odd manoeuvre at the Dunkirk-Ferry station... (more)

When O.S. Nock visited Miyazaki depot he had the good fortune to find this C57 Pacific bedecked with two Japanese flags and a golden chrysanthemum after working the Imperial train. Within hours it... (more)

The pioneer Great Northern Railway class C1 Atlantic No 251 was already 25 years old when this photo was taken of it piloting an Ivatt GNR class D2 4-4-0 No 4321 seen taking water from Langley tro... (more)

An ancient 0-6-0 of the Paris-Orleans railway stands at St.Pierre des Corps depot in Tours. This was from a series of locos built between 1863 and 1886 the few survivors of which became SNCF class... (more)

Another of the O.S. Nock 6 x 6cm negatives bought at auction. This view is of C61 20, one of 33 Baltics built in 1947-49 utilising boilers taken from D51 class 2-8-2s. At the time Japan had more h... (more)

A little Gem. Nord Railway 4-4-0T No 2.363 is receiving some repairs at Boulogne shed in 1937. Seventy of these neat little engines were built by four companies in 1892-95. Former Prussian (KPEV) ... (more)

A small narrow gauge contractors 0-4-0T is shunting tubs at the site of Colombes station that was being rebuilt. Photo by the late George Grigs.

Another photo by the late George R. Grigs showing NS four-cylinder 4-6-0 No 3903 leaving Utrecht with the 15.34 D-Zug to Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Henschel & Son, Kassel built 32 of of these fin... (more)

One of the famed Chapelon Nord Pacifics, No 231 E 24, has just un-coupled from an express from Paris Nord, with carriages from the 'Blue Train', and runs forward before reversing over the scissors... (more)

Following on from the shot of the pioneer large boilered GNR 4-4-2, one of the later engines No 3300 is seen about to take water from Langley troughs (track pan) with the 4.30pm express to Kings C... (more)