It doesn't get much better than this! Ex- Great Western locomotives are rarely given the opportunity to attack the gradients of the Pennine Hills of Lancashire and Yorkshire. When they do, the sig... (more)
The phrase 'cradle of the industrial revolution' was nowhere more encapsulated than inside a locomotive roundhouse of the former North Eastern Railway, in this case Sunderland. The adjective 'decr... (more)
At the dawn of 1968 it was still possible to see an occasional steam locomotive on main line workings. The Calder Valley seemed a particularly privileged location to live because elsewhere in much... (more)
Pssst, wanna hear a good story? My father was in the local historical society, a member had a boy who was 'interested in railways'. My father (bless him) kindly loaned some of my negatives to him.... (more)