Dominion of Canada is now at home! Dominion of Canada is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive. There were 35 A4 locomotives built in total. In September 2012, 60010 was sent from the Ca... (more)

Dominion of Canada is now at home! Dominion of Canada is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive. There were 35 A4 locomotives built in total. In September 2012, 60010 was sent from the Ca... (more)

Dominion of Canada is now at home! Dominion of Canada is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive. There were 35 A4 locomotives built in total. In September 2012, 60010 was sent from the Ca... (more)

It's July 1969,and class 47 D1975 has just arrived at Edinburgh Waverley station with an express from London Kings Cross.The loco has been fitted with an experimental headcode indicator,displaying... (more)

On 8th September 2013 Britannia Class 70013 "Oliver Cromwell" runs along the Sea Wall at Teignmouth with a Railtour bound for Cornwall.

An 05:30 start was necessary to be here in time to see this. Absolutely still and near freezing temperatures that gave a good exhaust plume even though the loco wasn't working hard. If only the su... (more)

In the 1950s British Railways built 252 'Standard' 4-6-0 locomotives, 172 of class 'Standard 5' and 80 of the lighter 'Standard 4'. They were intended to update and replace earlier designs from th... (more)

Although this morning's forecast was for wall-to-wall blue skies, alas it was not to be and 'cloudy but bright' was perhaps a more accurate description! Nonetheless, 'Duchess of Sutherland' makes ... (more)

The sound and the fury! This wonderful sight seemed to look so much better in monochrome. No locomotive looks as much so 'at home' as does Scots Guardsman on the Settle & Carlisle route. This thun... (more)

A pair of class 27 locos (D5377 and D5390) at Tramway Junction,Gloucester,in May 1968.The pair had worked from Birmingham with a freight service,and were returning light to Saltley depot.Although ... (more)

The passage of a steam locomotive startles a local crow to the betterment of my composition! Many towns and villages on the Settle and Carlisle route once boasted stations though several did not s... (more)

Silver-topped admirers watch 46115 Scots Guardsman pulls into Hellifield station with the Fellsman railtour in July 2011.

46115 Scots Guardsman pulls its train from a standing start on the steeply graded line from Clitheroe to join the Carlisle route at Hellifield with the Fellsman railtour in 2011.

A bright, but rather hazy day sees 46115 Scots Guardsman crosses the famous Ribblehead viaduct, on the Settle to Carlisle route, working the southbound Winter Cumbrian Express railtour.

A young lady staff member admires 46115 Scots Guardsman as it takes water at Hellifield station during a break while working the southbound Winter Cumbrian Express railtour.