It is Tanfield Railway's annual gala and special guest engine is this 0-6-0 tank locomotive No 813. It is hauling the first train of the day past Bowes Bridge which, over 60 years ago was a small,... (more)

Daily trip working from the paper mill in Espanola to Sudbury

Small town America, soething that I love

I love this bridge!!

I went four days in a row to catch this train. Succeeded once!

For me chasing trains is like fishing, waiting around for ages and then making a catch. I don't throw it back though!!

Because the guest engines at Beamish museum's Festival of Steam ran on 15 inch gauge track it meant that for the first time locomotives with three different guages could be seen in one palce. Here... (more)

Beamish museum held it annual steam fair last weekend and was rather low key compared to previous years. 2 guest engines came from the Ravenglas sand Eskdale railway which neccesitated building a ... (more)

2 Black Fives head an excursion to Carlisle through the Yorkshire Dales

Green Dragon is an eco-friendly steam locomotive as it burns wooden briquettes,lots of them.(Driver is sitting on some of them. )Used by South Tynedale railway it had a trip out today but had the ... (more)

The Royal Air Force is decomissioning their fleet of Tornado jets and for three days this week selected aircraft flew over the various RAF sites in England and Wales. As there is an RAF base at Le... (more)

A visitor to Wensleydale railway is recently built Tornado(well ten years ago). It is staying for three days and running four times during its sojourn.Unusually for locomotives on this railway it ... (more)

Every February Tanfield railway host four Sundays of freight running as well as their regular passenger timetable. Week one saw 0-4-0 No 2 hauling a short hooper train to replicate this line when ... (more)

On the Settle and Carlisle line there is a stretch that is continually rising for almost 40 miles and is known as the long drag. Here two locomotives, B1 Mayflower and Merchant Navy British India ... (more)

The end of steam is approaching on British Railways and it shows. Locomotives were run until they could run no more and then sent for scrap. With only a few weeks before steam disappeared in the L... (more)