A new freight flow and a new operator saw Hanson locomotives working for Colas Rail with a trainload of steel from Immingham to Washwood Heath. Here we see two Class 56s powering a train for the f... (more)

31454 works empty coaching stock from Barrow Hill to Gloucester. This was the first time I had the chance to photograph an all Inter-City livery train since the beginning of privitisation in the U... (more)

A double set of tilting Voyagers run through Kings Sutton to replace a service normally operated via Rugby on the WCML due to engineering work

As the summer sun starts to drop toward the horizon, the low light picks out all the below floor detail of the HST beautifully. This is the Fridays only HST from Edinburgh to Plymouth which runs n... (more)

My last shot of the day I went over to the WCML at Penkridge station, to photograph a member of the Desiro fleet in a decent colourful livery. It's been a long time coming for the plain grey to be... (more)

170398 is leased from Porterbrook to CrossCountry as an addition to the former Central Trains fleet. The units were distinctive for their all over white, but now both have received company livery.... (more)

The owner of 35028 'Taw Valley', Mr Phil Swallow, chose to celebrate his 50th birthday in style. He hired the VSOE Pullman dining service from London to the Severn Valley Railway and return, with ... (more)

Another shot of CrossCountry HST climbing the Lickey with the 06:40 service from Plymouth to Aberdeen

One of many increasing scrap flows for Advenza freight is from Shipley to Cardiff Tidal, seen in a gap between bad weather as it progresses slowly to Clay Cross Junction

168215 leads its train away after a stop at Kings Sutton

37906 (Super slug) leads the 10:00 departure to Bridgnorth away. It's easy to forget this train runs all through the summer for the diesel enthusiasts

With the barriers lowered, lights flashing and siren sounding a Cardiff to Nottingham speeds across the road.

Another shot of the 37/9s on the Severn Valley Railway, and just as 37906 opens up to accelerate up the grade into the tunnel. Note: 37906 has been turned and now the liveries are facing identical... (more)

There has been a recent revival of freight trains climbing the Lickey inlcine, and some of these new flows have been coming up in the morning when the sun is right. You know a train is heavy when ... (more)

With a trainload of scrap bound for Cardiff Tidal unusually not in the hands of a Class 57