I'd intended to take this dusk shot using the convoloted tree branches as a 'frame'. As I sat down waiting the moment, the clear sky began to change, as luck would have it along came this gorgeous... (more)

On a crystal clear morning, gleaming 'K1' No.62005 rattles through Gilberdyke 'en route' from York to Hull with the 'Pennine K' special. Thankfully she is without a ludicrous headboard which so ma... (more)

LNER K1 62005 enters Grosmont Station

On a very murky day, the 'Cotton Mill Express' was re-routed through Burnley, Clitheroe & Hellifield following a landslip at Elland on the intended path. Here is the 'Pocket Rocket' climbing hard ... (more)

K.1 2005 BR No.62005 at Glen Finnan on Ft.William to Mallaig Royal Scotsman

Nuts, bolts, and pins

No 19 at Llanfair Caereinion on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway 24/03/08

With the two 'big' engines in the shops, Strasburg was forced to use a helper on their 9-car Easter Bunny Trains. Here both engines work hard up the 1% grade between Cherry Hill and Esbenshade, wh... (more)

At the end of May beginning of June 2006 Past-Time Railtours operated a number of specials over a number of branchlines in Devon and Cornwall. The trains involved BR Standard steam loco 76079 and ... (more)

British Rail Standrtad 2 Mixed Traffic engine on the Great Central Railway in Leicester shire approaches the bridge before Quorn And Woodhouse Station

Ex LNER Class K.4 61994 The Great Marquess working a Whitby to Battersby Junction service along the Esk Valley Line near Lealholme

9351 arrives at Minehead with the 12:40 from Bishops Lydeard

Standard 4MT leaving Porthmadog Station with the first steam special along the Cambrian Coast line for over 25 years

Standard 4MT crosses Traeth Mawr and the estuary of the Afon Glaslyn with a steam special for Porthmadog and then on to Pwhelli.This was the first steam train along the Cambrian line for over 25 y... (more)

CN 89 pulls the last train of the day up the grade at Cherry Hill and back to Strasburg.