Leaving Appleby for Carlisle on the last leg of a northbound Cumbrian Mountain express, at the end of a beautiful day.

A condensing 25 class climbs away from the servicing stop at Oranjerivier, its exhaust framing another train coasting downhill behind a pair of locos from the same class. The lead loco of this tra... (more)

Long-stored steam locos of classes 15CA and 15F are being put to the torch in Germiston depot.

A northbound passenger train arrives at Nabadwip Dham station, north of Calcutta, behind one of Indian Railways magnificent WP class Pacifics.

Train travel, Indian style! We had travelled overnight on this train in a first class sleeper. Others had not been so comfortable.

In the beautiful Dolomite mountains, one of the Crosti-boilered 741 class, with side exhaust, approaches Valdaora station with a Fortezza to San Candido passenger working.

A GF class Garratt blackens the sky over some traditional rondavels as it climbs from Deepdale to Donnybrook.

Conversation around the turntable at the preserved Barrow Hill roundhouse.

The usual pair of QJs climb towards Biligou in early morning light - a scene repeated countless times over the previous nine years, but the show was nearly at an end when this shot was taken.

Low winter sunlight illuminates Great Western prairie tank 4141 on a Santa train between Leicester and Loughborough.

The cylinder drain cocks are open as 8F 48305 lifts its Santa special away from Rothley on the Great Central Railway.

An unexpected break in the clouds catches British Railways Standard 73129 crossing Butterley reservoir with a Midland Railway Centre Santa working.

Two farmworkers pause to watch an NGG11 Garratt as it climbs towards Ncalu on the Paton's Country Railway.

The world's last working Shays outside preservation were on the Philippine island of Negros. Here Lopez Sugar Corporation's no. 9 is shunting sugar cane wagons.

Making one of its first runs in over 40 years following restoration from scrapyard condition, 4953 Pitchford Hall heads a Birmingham to York excursion at Brotherton.