Two guest engines visited tanfield for their gala last year. here is Bellerophon entering East Tanfield with a service train.
A lovely town is Revelstoke, even has a railway museum. Every time I visit BC I always make a point of calling by to see what is happening.
Raising steam for the 2007 gala. 4 locomotives in the shed yard
I always have wanted to photograph trains in the snow in Canada. Last year I had the chance. Here is Morants curve from the less attractive viewpoint but the sun was such that it makes a better pi... (more)
A place that I had always wanted to visit, Canadian National tracks crossing the Fraser river with Canadian Pacific tracks crossing on the bridge further on.
As the late afternoon sets in the sky a Santa Special train heads for the main station on Tanfield railway, cunningly renamed the "North Pole".
Beamish museum launch their replica of Puffing Billy which gives invited guests the chance to ride behind the locomotive as far as the horse drawn wheel pump.
Steam Elephant takes invited guests for a ride along the museum's short length of track.
Matthew Murray at the end of the day dropping its fire in the Oldest railway shed in the world.
We finally had snow today , here a class 91 catches the sun as it heads for Durham and the North.
Tanfield railway was built on a waggonway which had been operating from the beginning of the 18th century. Then one horse would haul a waggon of coal to the river Tyne. Tanfield hauled many wagon... (more)
On loan Jinty locomotive but in harness on the Embsay railway
Sometimes we get snow in UK and can cope with it!
A glint of the sun on locomotive Naklo heading back to Alston with a Santa train
Just loved the light when taking this and the one seen a couple of days ago
