The light was so nice I couldn't resist uploading this shot from the same session at Manor Farm. 66113 nears its destination with 6X48, the Dagenham - Didcot car transporters

Clouds of brake dust swirl around the rear power car of an FGW HST set and are picked out by shafts of sunlight as this eastbound working brakes hard for the stop at Reading

67022 passes Moreton Cutting in sweet evening light running 20 mins late with 5Z35, an empty stock move from Eastleigh to Preston. This train would form the following days 1Z35 Horwich - Wembley f... (more)

British Railways Standard Class 7MT Pacific 70000 Britannia has finally returned to mainline service after nearly 14 years. Her first duty, a Cathedrals Express railtour from Oxford to Canterbury ... (more)

Low emissions variant 66953 passes Compton Beauchamp with the Calvert - Bristol empty Binliner (containerised rubbish). This traffic flow has only a few weeks to run after more than 20 years dispo... (more)

Winter has finally come to the Thames Valley after hitting just about everywhere else in the UK hard over the last 2-3 weeks. Despite the appalling conditions (by UK standards) train 6B33, the The... (more)

Ex GWR Castle class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe hauls the First Moor Street Express Railtour past the boats on the Oxford canal at Heyford. Despite a recent thaw there is still ice on the canal.

A Z27500 EMU catches the last rays of a golden sunset as it leaves Nuits behind and heads for Tonnerre. Under these conditions the 1500V compound catenary becomes a feature of the picture rather t... (more)

Warm late evening sunshine illuminates BB26115 as it brings a heavy train of new cars down the gradient towards Montbard.

A TGV ascends the valley of the river L'Oze near Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (where the movie Chocolat was filmed) towards the tunnel at Blaisy Bas. This section of the line is quadrupled to allow for th... (more)

A colourful intermodal service heads south behind Sybic BB26205 at Villotte-St-Seine. I heard this coming for some minutes as the driver continually exchanged horns with a car on the road which pa... (more)

A TGV starts the climb up the steeply graded connecting line from the classic line between Dijon and Paris at Buffon towards the LGV line from Lyon to Paris a few kilometres away at Soulangy as an... (more)

An unidentified Sybic heads a southbound intermodal service near the village of Buffon near Montbard. Just behind the train in the middle distance is the 18th century ironworks of La Grande Forges... (more)

Two TGV Duplex sets pass each other at high speed under stormy skies. The location is the junction at Soulangy on the LGV from Paris to Lyon. From here trains can gain access to the classic line t... (more)

The light of the setting sun highlights the catenary as BB7236 approaches the small junction station of Nuits with a rake of Corail stock heading west towards Dijon