This seaside town is Whitby in North Yorkshire and since 1897 it has become famous as the place where Dracula landed in England. On the far right of the picture are the ruins of Whitby Abbey, buil... (more)

The resident locomotive at Threlkeld is Sir Tom, performing here along the newly built extension

This weekend sees the return of the annual steam gala at Threlkeld mining museum. The 3 guest engines can be seen around the shed yard with Roger entering from the newly built extension with a rak... (more)

Horden, Tanfield's newest locomotive, makes its way around Engineman's curve with a train for Andrews House

I got my feet wet, he didn't catch anything

A Class 800 arrives at Dawlish on a crew trainng run

Tanfield's newest locomtive 0-6-0 tank engine Horden is being used for revenue service for the first time today. 9 years ago this locomotive was deemed a write off but hard work by the volunteers ... (more)

Celebrating its 150th birthday is restored 0-4-0VBGT "Coffee Pot" No.1 vertical boiler shunting engine, originally built in 1871 by Head Wrightson at their Thornaby works on Teesside. ... (more)

Afer 14 months of inactivity Beamish museum finally had some steam operating at the colliery village. 5 locomotives in all were used including this on loan 0-4-0 Peckett saddletank which is seen h... (more)

A train for Scotland heads north over Croxdale viaduct as the sun sets on a chilly day in Durham

End of a gala day at Tanfield railway. locomotives are being disposed of, which entails the dropping of the fire. Y7 1310 has the last pieces of fire dumped from its firebox

A sight that will be missing this year. no snow and, more importantly, no Santa Specials because of a lockdown in the north east of England. Here No 49 leads a Santa special to the North Pole wher... (more)

East bound freight at Steventon with the Bridge of the Gods in the distance

Late afternoon sun catches a class 66 with a freight on Croxdale viaduct just south of Durham. The sun soon disappeared and a heavy rain shower drove me back to the car

The Uk's newest mainline locomotive Tornado paid a visit to the Nene Valley railway in 2013. There was a need to turn the engine and this had to be done manually. Three volunteers work hard at tur... (more)