47 579 accelerates past Swainsthorpe box and the remains of the station with the 10:17 Norwich - Liverpool Street. Despite being closed for 30 years, the platform and building remain. Another tran... (more)

End of an era Friday 1st October 1982 - The headboard of the 'Master Cutler' is removed from a locomotive for the last time. This Sheffield - St Pancras express was worked by HST's from the follow... (more)

40 135 waits to leave Norwich with a freight presumably bound for Whitemoor yard in March. A 40 at Norwich in the 80's was unusual, and even more so when the working was being used to remove ADB96... (more)

'The East Anglian' leaves Norwich behind 47 574 bound for Liverpool Street. The headboard was a short lived revival

Preserved class 40 - 40 145 makes a rare appearance on the Great Western mainline with the Devonian railtour bound for Kingswear. By this stage the train was 30 mins late and came past only doing ... (more)

60041 nears it's final destination of Newhaven on the 1414 departure from Crawley.

33 065 heads the 16:20 Cardiff - Portsmouth past the village of Bathford in the Avon Valley

58 016, 017, and 018 under construction in Doncaster Works

The lines east of Norwich do not seem over popular with photographers (although there are some fine shots on this site from the area), despite the survival of semaphore signalling in many location... (more)

33 020 approaches Bathford in the Avon Valley on a beautiful spring evening hauling the 16:10 Portsmouth - Bristol

47368 poses with an engineers train wearing the bland Trainload Freight two tone grey livery without sub-sector decals.

A storm builds over Dartmoor. 47 613 heads the 12:25 Penzance - Liverpool near Ivybridge

While the Norwich London line was being electrified, there was a period when diesel and electric traction was swapped at Ipswich. 47 574 approaches Ipswich with the 11:40 Norwich - Liverpool Stree... (more)

The winter of 1981/2 was severe across much of Britain. 45 101 arrived at Nottingham with the 09:53 St Pancras - Sheffield. It should have reversed here, but the engine shutdown and failed to rest... (more)

50 030 snakes through Temple Meads station with empty stock (including MkIII sleepers)