We don't often see multi loco lash-ups in the UK and even fewer with different liveries but to-day train 6B45 Unit 45 container train for the continent via the Channel Tunnel was hauled by dual vo... (more)
I would not normally post a photo of a nuclear flask train but yesterday evening saw the last load from Dungeness 'A' nuclear power station to Sellafield on the completion of the stations decommis... (more)
Following the breakdown of several Eurostar trains in the Channel Tunnel due to snow ingress on Friday 18th December, a number of test runs were carried out after extra snow screens had been fitte... (more)
Battle of Britain class Pacific No 34067 'Tangmere', named after a WWII fighter aerodrome, heads a special circular tour train from London Victoria to Hastings and back to London on a day when man... (more)
The same pair of Hitachi units Nos 395 002 and 395 004 are seen on the same driver training run as my previous post (photo id 276370) returning from London St.Pancras to Margate. The leading unit ... (more)
A pair of Britain's newest class of high-speed trains built by Hitachi in Japan, Nos 395 004 and 395 002 speed past the camera at close to 140mph on a driver training run from Ramsgate to London S... (more)
The 07.01 Paris Nord to London St.Pancras Eurostar is seen in the golden glow of a cold misty morning in Kent.
The 09.57 St.Pancras to Brussels train hurtles through the snow as it heads south through Kent to the Channel Tunnel on a morning when few other trains are running in the south east.
A pair of RailFreight Distribution Class 47s, Nos 47 228 and 47 338, have just passed the village of Charing with a late afternoon inter-modal train from the Channel Tunnel to the Midlands. With t... (more)
At 16.40 on the last day of January the first load of ballast is dropped at Km post 80 on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The hoppers are Rail Track's new autoballaster wagons which are radio contro... (more)