Since the worldwide economic downturn, freight in the UK has become even harder to find for photographers. Happily, a recent addition on Mondays only from Margam to Kingsbury has been running, for... (more)

Another morning that I got to enjoy the freight revival in Middle England as another Class 66 gets shoved up the Lickey with a heavy load by classmate 66059. Fourty minutes before this shot was ta... (more)

156402 was painted in this one-off livery for a unit swap deal with Scotrail. This fell through when the Scots realised their 158s had air-con and these nails didn't! So, here is ghostly 156402 on... (more)

Wearing the overall livery of the no longer existent Silverlink TOC, 150127 is seen on the bank of the River Teign, the train has just passed Teignmouth and I'm stood at Shaldon on the other river... (more)

A shot of 170504 heading out in the morning sun towards Birmingham New Street

The Northern Belle luxury dining train is not normally a visitor to the arduous climb of the Lickey bank and is seen on a gloriously sunny morning making short work with a pair of Class 67s provid... (more)

7812 'Erlestoke Manor' is seen as it approaches Bewdley with a service to Kidderminster

D1013 Western Ranger heads through a rare patch of sun towards Kidderminster with the first through service of the day from Bridgnorth

185123 is shut down in the South bay at Preston prior to forming the 02:08 to Manchester Airport

Occupying it's own niche as a celebrity among the test train locos, I headed out to catch the loco on a very cold November morning as it headed from Tyseley-Exeter. Since these trains moved to sin... (more)

Virgin trains had hired this HST set from Midland Mainline to work an additional service between Reading and Manchester in connection with a music festival (not that they'd ever admit that Voyager... (more)

MLVs are used extensively across the UK rail network for a variety of jobs, such as clearing railhead contamination. Here a pair of MLV vehicles are seen climbing the Lickey incline, but with only... (more)

D821 'Greyhound' crosses Falling Sands Viaduct with one of the passenger workings 2009s Diesel Gala

With a dark storm approaching Bridgnorth the DMU makes good its escape in full sunshine. This is technically only half a Class 117, the other half being a Class 108

A much longer than usual consist heads behind 37410 to Bescot from Birch Coppice