Almost 500 years-worth of motive power and rolling stock are pictured leaving Oakworth station on one of the KWVR's wonderful 'Vintage Trains'. Fortunately, it was a glorious day for the event. I ... (more)

I doubt if I've ever seen such an exhibition of uphill power from Scots Guardsman. Not only was it a quite wonderful spectacle to behold, but the sound as the train approached was arguably even be... (more)

Photographs of the famed Settle and Carlisle route seldom feature Settle itself. Castleberg rock, a crag set 300ft above this ancient Yorkshire market town gives offers a wonderful panorama across... (more)

Under dark and brooding skies, typical Yorkshire Dales weather, the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' passes westbound over the elegant three arch viaduct at Gargrave. The ghastly and unsympathetic use ... (more)

The story of Ribblehead Viaduct is the stuff of legend. It cost 100 lives of the 'navvies' that built it between 1870 and 1874 and as many more amongst their wives and families living in the shant... (more)

Standing in this spot today you'd see . . . very little! The MPD has long been razed to the ground replaced by silver birch saplings that obscure any view of the flat hinterland beyond. Once a sig... (more)

Filthy '9F' No.92001 lays down a smokescreen as the wan early morning sun rises to catch another weary westbound freight heading through Mirfield. The textile town of Mirfield was located in what ... (more)

1938 built 'Coronation' class Pacific No.6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' is really getting into her stride as she pulls hard away from Settle. High winds made choosing a photo position a case of 'pot... (more)

A scene that would never be permitted under today's 'health & safety' regime, yet I don't recall a single one of the hundreds of people who turned out to witness steam's final, glorious finale com... (more)

Shafts of light through smoke-stained windows pick out SY 0532 in the MPD adjacent to Chengde steelworks. She was shunting in nearby Shuangtashan yard earlier in the day and has come on to shed fo... (more)

Isn't it great when a plan comes together? The train, the locomotives, the location, the exhaust and crisp early morning sunshine. Sometimes there's that little bit extra, in this case overnight s... (more)

The sweeping double track curves at Kinchley Lane have justifiably long been a magnet for visiting photographers at the Great Central Railway. Sadly, the trees on the left are long gone, victims o... (more)

Steam's days are now numbered. Languishing in the late summer's evening light, unwanted and un-needed, even modern classes like the BR 'Standard 9F' freight locomotives await their fate. They will... (more)

The delightful Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway in Cumbria runs four miles from Haverthwaite right up to the shores of Lake Windermere. They have both surviving examples of these large 2-6-4 tank l... (more)

The passage of a steam locomotive startles a local crow to the betterment of my composition! Many towns and villages on the Settle and Carlisle route once boasted stations though several did not s... (more)