This is Skipton, self-styled 'Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales'. Beautiful clouds herald a lovely May afternoon as '8F' No.48622, still fitted with her snowplough, passes westward with coal from the... (more)
Ex-LMS '8F' No.48151 is heading from west to east with a special running to the East Coast resort of Scarborough from Carnforth. She is approaching Long Preston and Settle Junction is about a mile... (more)
The South Yorkshire town of Royston was (and is) an unlovely place though the 60's at least it had a purpose. The coking plant on the horizon and many local collieries supplied coke & coal to indu... (more)
The location is Heaton Lodge Junction just west of Mirfield Motive Power Depot which was on the left just beyond the distant bridge. Yet another filthy '8F' hauls one of the seemingly endless proc... (more)
On former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway metals, the thunderous exhaust of Stanier '8F' No.48151 could be heard long before she arrived at my vantage point of Goose Hill Junction. Such sweet antic... (more)
