Another very atmospheric photo by the late Kenneth Field showing a local train from Crewe on arrival in Chester General station hauled by class 2P 4-4-0 No 40653.

Just fifty years ago Gresley class A4 Pacific No 60026 Miles Beevor heads north past Potters Bar with a lunch time Kings Cross (London) to Newcastle express. This was at the start of what was to b... (more)

A former London & North Western Railway G2a 0-8-0 (LMS 7F) passes Diggle Junction with a Liverpool to Leeds goods train that has come up from Stalybridge via the long closed Micklehurst loop. The ... (more)

LMS class 3P 2-6-2T No 40057 at Measurements Halt the the Odham to Delph push/pull train in the early 1950s. This train was known locally as the Delph Donkey. The very basic Measurements Halt was ... (more)

Stanier 'Black Five' 4-6-0 No 44870 pilots Fowler three-cylinder 'Patriot' 4-6-0 No 45515 Caernarvon over Saddleworth viaduct with the 5pm Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle express on a September... (more)

A former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 2-4-2T No 50818 performs station pilot duty at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire as an LMS class 4 2-6-4T reverses out of the station. This was one of the ma... (more)

The class 06 shunting locos were a fairly small class of 34 locos,and were found scattered all across Scotland.They were built by Andrew Barclay & Sons,and entered service at the end of the 1950s.... (more)

Early morning as Sir Cecil A Cochrane raises steam in Marley Hill shed

Slightly over 50 years ago Gresley A4 Pacific No 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower accelerates away from its stop at Potters Bar with the 7.15pm Kings Cross, London to Peterborough semi-fast train as my ... (more)

Having travelled from Kings Cross yesterday I thought I would turn the clock back 52 years to a photo I took of Gresley A4 Pacific No 60027 'Merlin' reversing out of the station after arrving with... (more)

A rather unkempt looking A4 no. 60010 Dominion of Canada, returned for a spell to the UK from the Railway Museum at Quebec. Seen at the A4 night shoot line up at the National Railway Museum annex ... (more)

A4 no. 60010 Dominion of Canada, visiting the UK from Montreal, faces the lights and gallery of photographers at the night photoshoot at the National Railway Museum annex at Locomotion, Shildon, C... (more)

A scene on the Tanfield Railway, which claims to be the worldfs oldest railway from 1725. There is very little of the modern world in this view with two locos dating from 1891. The traction ... (more)

End of the night shoot and the fires are disposed off before the locomotives are reversed back into the shed.

It is gala time again at Tanfield Railway and as always a night shoot is arranged before the weekend's festivities. Here is a line up of locomotives being used as they wait to enter the shed for t... (more)