This Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 'Pug' built by the company's Horwich works in 1901, sits neatly on the turntable at Keighley. These useful tanks were used wherever limited clearances or tigh... (more)

On well maintained track, lengthening afternoon shadows draw the outline of 90351, one of the 730 'Austerity' 2-8-0's. She plods wearily north from Royston with another load of coal from the Barns... (more)

The clean, elegant lines of 'Britannia' class pacific 'Oliver Cromwell' are evident as the Scarborough Spa Express breasts the top of Garforth bank heading eastbound for York. I was fortunate to h... (more)

"How come" said my wife, "whenever we go out for a day trip in our car, as if by magic a steam train just 'happens' to be running wherever you take me"? "Dunno" I said, "it just does - that's ... (more)

Two operating characteristics epitomise the West Country class of Pacifics designed by Oliver Bulleid of the Southern Railway. The fierce exhaust, often referred to as 'volcanic' and a reputation ... (more)

Monday morning, 0600 hours, it's a new dawn. Another mixed freight rolls lazily into awakening Lindong.

This is the confluence of the Calder & Hebble Canal and the River Calder at Eastmoor, Wakefield. Canal boats can join the Calder at this point for about two miles and then re-join the canal system... (more)

I had last seen a sight like this over thirty five years before (at Healey Mills freight Yard near Wakefield in Yorkshire). Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd ever witness such a glorious ... (more)

Brian Stephenson's superb series of recent postings of images by the late Kenneth Field include a wonderful photograph of a freight train headed by an ex-LNWR 0-8-0 taken just a few hundred yards ... (more)

The driver of SY 0848 pays some attention to his steed as the evening sun slips away behind a forest of wires, signals, smoke and steam. Between the locomotives is a deep ash pit. Welcomingly war... (more)

QJ 7002 pilots an unidentified classmate away from Daban towards the Jingpeng pass. Once in a while, I need to remind myself that this was not a fevered figment of my imagination, merely breathtak... (more)

The possibilty of re-creating a War Department 2-8-0 was long thought to be the stuff of fantasy. Thanks to an example of the class being repatriated from Sweden and entirely due to the dedication... (more)

Regular viewers will have come to realise that I'm in love with my home county, Yorkshire with its unrivalled variety of landscape. From village to city, from mountain to moor, from open plains to... (more)

The Yorkshire Dales can be gloriously sunny one minute and threateningly moody the next. The Autumnal weather changed to the latter as 'Tornado' thundered through the sweeping curve approaching G... (more)

Venturing closer . . . afraid to blink in case I woke up. It looked like a double-headed oil train, sounded like a double-headed oil train, SMELLED like a double-headed oil train. Yep - it must be... (more)