51 years ago and a Stanier 8F trundles towards Tamworth station with a mineral train from the North.

Crew of locomotive TWIZELL waiting for the signal to head into Andrews House station

A couple of class 47's lead a mail train from Team Valley Gateshead south across Croxdale viaduct. Scanned from a transparency

And the rain came down

A coal crushing machine is in full swing, providing small lumps for these narrow gauge engines. From left to right they are CLOISTER, SIR TOM and IRISH MAIL. Only SIR TOM is a resident at this sma... (more)

Threlkeld Mining Museum's annual gala is tomorrow but a charter ran the locomotives a day early. Here Jack Lane, one of the five guest engines, heads a small rack of mineral hoppers

A SLICE OF HISTORY. In 1976 the last train ran along the 18 mile line from Haltwhistle to Alston. Attempts were made to preserve it as a standard gauge railway but the line was quickly ripped up. ... (more)

I had been standing here for a couple of hours when a rather large teenage girl came up to see what I was doing. After a few words had been spoken she found out that I was English."Say,"... (more)

At the start of their annual gala locomotives taking part begin to raise steam

Bowes railway had one of their open days last Saturday and because of the state of their short length of line they could only operate an exhibition of shunting for visitors. Newly acquired locomot... (more)

I watched a lot of fish caught that day, this was the first train I caught after 6 hours of waiting

Picking up a load of cars this train headed east to store them in a siding