With his dung basket slung across his back, a goatherd takes a rest from tending his flock in the hills above Reshui. Meanwhile a pair of QJs are rounding the horseshoe from level 2 towards Tunnel... (more)

Down on the coast it's the rainy season - warm and wet - but above the clouds in the mountains near Asmara it's cool and dry. In these perfect conditions for steam loco photography, a charter frei... (more)

The reason why Britain has such a vibrant preservation scene. Five years after the end of steam on British Railways, withdrawn locos still stretch into the far distance at Dai Woodham's scrapyard ... (more)

Arranged at very short notice due to high fire risk on the Montagu Pass, GEA 4023 crosses the Malgaarten river between George and Mossel Bay.

The season of mid-week main line steam trains is now in full swing in the UK, and the "Scarborough Spa Express" was one of four running in various parts of the country on 29th July - a day of most... (more)

A lucky break in the clouds catches the K1 on Glenfinnan viaduct in the last week of the Jacobite Steam Train season.

Leaving Appleby for Carlisle on the last leg of a northbound Cumbrian Mountain express, at the end of a beautiful day.

A WP Pacific heads a well-loaded (!) passenger train east out of Lucknow. The coal pickers pay no attention to this commonplace activity, and continue their search for free coal in the shed exit r... (more)

I suspect that the complexity of a Big Boy's controls might prove a little confusing for the uninitiated!

The other star attraction at Green Bay is 'Big Boy' 4017. Some of our group suggested that if the preservation movement were as strong in the US as it is in the UK, a 'Big Boy' would have been ret... (more)

Train travel, Indian style! We had travelled overnight on this train in a first class sleeper. Others had not been so comfortable.

The shadows of the River Dee are illuminated by late summer evening sunlight, reflected off the side of a local passenger train approaching Glyndyfrdwy in the Vale of Llangollen. Thanks to Richard... (more)

I had been due to fly to Eritrea next week for my fourth trip to the country and its wonderful railway, but sadly the line has been damaged by recent heavy rainfall and the tour has had to be canc... (more)

A pair of QJs hoist a perfect exhaust plume into the cool morning air as they accelerate away from Jingpeng, building speed for the gradients and curves that lie ahead.

Pacific 564.36 'Temerloh' leaves the magnificent colonial-style Kuala Lumpur station with a photo charter for just 5 gricers!