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)

Recent years have seen the very welcome return to steam of a variety of pre-grouping (i.e. before 1923) heavy freight locomotives. None more so than the magnificent Darlington-built 'Q6' 0-8-0 fro... (more)

This is the landscape of my youth. The embankment from which this view was taken was my haunt. Me, my bicycle, a can of 'pop' a few sandwiches and an endless procession of trains. Mostly westboun... (more)

Old Gold. New Gold. 'Scots Guardsman' makes a powerful exit from Leeds as the sun goes down. Meanwhile the slumbering new generation look on in awe!

Batley Viaduct was built in 1848 by the London & North Western Railway, with shared use by the Great Northern Railway whose lines (now closed) met with the L&NWR at Batley. The viaduct is on the m... (more)

The Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway has but one viaduct and this crosses the Avon Gorge. The waters of the River Avon pass far below as they make their way towards the Firth of Forth at Grangemouth an... (more)

You'd never know it to look at this image, but Sir William Stanier's first pacific design was over seventy years old when 'Princess Elizabeth' was captured galloping towards Rawtenstall in lovely ... (more)

Several preserved railways can boast a steam crane on their stock lists. Few are as magnificently presented as the Cowans Sheldon example based at Ingrow on the KWVR. Here she is, in lovely early ... (more)

It is hard to believe that such a believable recreation of the late 19th Century could be achieved in 2010, yet here it is in all its delightful detail. I was the only witness to this wonderfully ... (more)

A mad dash up the motorway towards Barnsley in the hope of one final shot before heading home to get changed and off to work. The railway heads uphill out of Barnsley on this single track section ... (more)

Benxi Steelworks' fleet of SY 2-8-2's were acquired from other areas and re-numbered into a 700 series. This portrait of 732 shows a typical duty, returning the large steel slag cauldrons from the... (more)

The Worth Valley's Ivatt tank scurries past North Ives Barn on the approach to Oxenhope. The combination of fresh, crisp snow and steam is a winning combination though (surprisingly) few were out ... (more)

OK, so I went out to take steam, but a combination of my crazy dog and an unruly grandson does not mix with great line-side steam photography! A dusting of overnight snow meant that even this humb... (more)

This must have been the perfect evening to bid farewell to the last train of this season's Scarborough Spa Expresses. 45305 heads eastward out of Leeds, catching the dying rays of the evening sun.... (more)

"Ere lad if tha's got ten quid tha can 'ave this - it might leak light a bit". So said the old gent at the car boot sale as he thrust an Voigtlander 'Bessa 1' (6cm x 9 cm negs) folding camera into... (more)