Beamish museum's first event since the covid outbreak, held May 1 2021. Peckett 0-4-0 heads a load of chaldron wagons out of the colliery yard
Meanwhile in the yard at Beamish the coffee pot locomotive is waiting for a traction engine to clear the tracks, which had been used to lift loads hauled by the narrow gauge locomotive "Peter... (more)
It is Beamish Museum's annual steam weekend and this year there is a great deal of activity concentrating on the road side of things. Not much is taking place on rails. One of the guests to the pa... (more)
6233 heads a special to Carlisle over the Eden Lacy viaduct
A meet on the Fraser river.
My first railfanning trip to Canada back in 1998 and I was using film. A scan of a transparency taken along Highway 1 in the Fraser river valley. A freight is heading towards Kamloops
The famous Ribblehead viaduct with the Cumbrian Mountain Express heading back south after a visit to Carlisle
2016 Tanfield railway's gala was a damp affair, enlivened by the visit of Sir Berkeley, which is seen here leading locomotive Twizell out of Andrews House station with atrain for Sunniside
55 years ago this summer I was on a train from the Hook Of Holland to Warsaw. It took a day and a half to do the journey and I occupied some of the time taking pictures of steam locomotives leanin... (more)
Storm Arwen passed through on Friday night, damaging the infrastructure put in place for the annual santa special trains and forcing the cancellation of the first day of the festive season. By Sun... (more)
Whitby is a seaside town on the North East coast of England where, according to Bram Stoker, the ship The Demeter ran aground on rocks by the harbour giving Dracula the chance to escape onto land.... (more)
A metro car heads over the bridge to Gateshead whilst a class 80 begins to haul a freight through Newcastle station
The 2pm from Whitby heads south at Moorgates on the North Yorkshire Moors
On my last day before returning to the UK I chased the east bound freight of the ottawa Valley railroad and caught it leaving North bay
Return trip from Sudbury to North bay at Sturgeon Falls