Another lucky break in the trees lights up the morning train from Colombo to Jaffna departing from the small junction of Polgahawela.

To express my sadness to the people of Sri Lanka at the terrific terrorist attack on Easter Sunday I am posting this photo of a happy family that came to the railway station to see the steam train... (more)

Two women continue their journey home, intrigued but not fazed by the crazy Englishman photographing ALCO locomotives.

This is the very quaint departures board at Bandarwela station. Very different to the digital screens we usually see, these days.

If you have to get your feet wet when photographing trains you know you're onto a good shot....

An express train to Delhi heads over the "holy" River Ganges at Allahabad, the scene a few weeks earlier of Kumbh Mela - the largest human gathering on earth as approx 120 million people... (more)

The mornings chores carry on as normal against the backdrop of express trains going to and from Calcutta.

ALCO powered 16666 and its engineer wait patiently under the Goan sun for EMD powered 40115 to clear the single line with the Jan Shatabdi express from Mumbai.

Metre gauge locos 2603 (left) and 2915 pass at Sholashahar Junction with trains to and from Chittagong university.

Sun, sea, sand and ALCOs... What more do you need?!

Emerging from the morning mist, Alco 6002 on train 732,Barendra Express, 0600 Nilphamari to Rajshahi seen at Natore. The loco was built in Schenectady in 1965.

The local train to Anuradhapura splits the semaphore signals at the small station of Nagollagama.

The morning commuter train pulls into Mount Lavinia station hauled by one of the distinctive MLW built M4 locomotives - African cabbed (although not in Africa!) MX620s powered with an ALCO 12-251C... (more)

The proud station master at Barwala poses for a photo at his desk, in front of the token machines and station panel.

Metre gauge, Hyundai/Rotemn loco No 2910 heads away from Chittagong with train 37, The Mymensingh Express, 1510 to Jagannathganj Ghat.