Another area of the narrow gauge which has been recently opened. Here guest engine 104 is at the head of a train carrying sawn wood. The traction engine has been harnessed to drive a belt which in... (more)

This weekend is Beamish museum's annual steam fair and this year it has a World War 1 theme. In the pit yard two narrow gauge steam locomotives vie for attention with a narrow gauge armoured senti... (more)

Replica locomotive the Steam Elephant backs onto its coaches in the shed yard at Beamish museum. This locomotive was built using only an oil painting that was in the museum's collection for guide ... (more)

Bowes railway only opens once a month and doesn't always feature steam running so this was quite a rare occasion. No 22 heads a demonstration freight up the line on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Stephenson Railway museum probably has the least scenic stretch of line in the whole of the UK. Built around a test line for the Tyne and Wear Metro system in the 1970's it features a straight len... (more)

Sadly now removed from the skyline these signals dominated the exit from Barnetby for many years. A class 60 heads for the coast with a rake of oil tankers a few days before colour lights were ins... (more)

Bobgins crossing and a demonstration freight

After costing 4.5 million pounds to restore and 10 years in the restoration Flying Scotsman is wowing the nation.this week it has been to the North Yorkshire Moors railway for a weeks visit and hu... (more)

It cost £35 for a two hour stint with the Flying Scotsman , around $50. Quite a few thought that it was worth it even though it stayed motionless for the whole time. Here, some railfans mill arou... (more)

Flying Scotsman again, sitting in the yard of the National Railway museum in York.In the background is York Minster which was started in 1220 AD though there has been a church on the site since 67... (more)

For a fairly expensive fee members of the public were allowed two hours in the company of newly restored Flying Scotsman last night. Sad thing was that it simply stood in the yard whilst photograp... (more)

The last Sunday of Tanfield Railway's month of freight and it's Coal Train Day. Carrying coal is what the line was built for and it used steam haulage on the fairly level parts of the track and ro... (more)

Week two of the month long freight event at Tanfield Railway at Sir Cecil A Cochrane hails a short freight past Bobgins Crossing

Grand Central train from London Kings Cross heads past the site of the long gone colliery at Easington on its last leg to Sunderland

I had been hanging around Holbrook that morning when I discovered that the Apache Railway was going to take some empty wagons down the line. Something which I believe doesn't happen all that often... (more)