It's 1-30 am on January 16th, 1961. The crew of 'Super D' 49395 wait patiently for the road as another endless train of empty sixteen-tonners rumbles past on the through line. (Actually it's about... (more)

An '8F' drifts past a deserted platform in the East Midlands with yet more coal empties. Nobody would have batted an eyelid in 1962, but in 2007 it was British preservation's finest.

It's a miserable January afternoon in 1961. An '8F' plods north with empty sixteen tonners while a 'Super D' heads south with general merchandise. An everyday scene perfectly recreated on a series... (more)

2 passers-by pause to watch locos being prepared. Steam is being transferred from the left loco to the right loco, to quickly steam it up so it can go and rescue a failed diesel out in the cane fi... (more)

Local train formed of Budd cars converted to loco hauled vehicles, plus boxcars converted to basic passenger carrying cars.

A large Pt47 heads a 3-car fantrip on a runby on this impressive structure.

2 women attempt to chip ice from hand operated switches on this narrow gauge mineral line.

Steam trapped between the cars gives an unusual effect.

The large Mitsubishi 4-8-2 heads a 3-car Dorridge Travel special at a photo runby.

Streamlined 520 class 'Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey' heads an Adelaide-Tailem Bend special over the Murray River. 3 of the 5 cars have been detached allowing the occupants to visit a nearby winery.... (more)

2 classic 'Covered Wagons' - Australian broad gauge versions - leave the port of Portland, on Australia's south coast, with grain empties.

The two Mallets are carefully positioned under the overhead water gantry, to replenish their tanks for the last lap to Asmara.

This Mallet suffered a fusible plug failure in the afternoon, fortunately without causing injury. It sat, cold and silent, on the dockside as the sun set. An all-night marathon by the railway's fi... (more)

A runby with one of the Mallet tanks on the causeway just outside the docks. The railway ends on the right of this shot and does not, yet, serve the dock area.

'K1' 62005 on a photo charter on day affected by sea mist on the extensive dockside trackage (now largely disused) at Hull, on Yorkshire's North Sea coast. P&O's North Sea Ferry 'Norstar' is in th... (more)