Loco 'Olton Hall', star of the Harry Potter movies, heads for Mallaig with the regular 'Jacobite' summer steam working. This is the West Highland Extension Railway, where most of the rail scenes i... (more)
Bold Colliery used steam until 1982 though rail traffic action was irregular. Austerity tank 'Robert' heads colourful 'HEA' coal hoppers towards the screens, for loading with coal bound for Irelan... (more)
Bickershaw Colliery used steam traction until 1979 until diesels arrived, when steam was demoted to standby use. A small fleet of 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddletanks kept the coal moving. Blue liveried ... (more)
Bedlay colliery occupied a rural location though just a few miles from the centre of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. A Barclay 0-4-0ST running light engine back to the mine from the exchange sid... (more)
Bickershaw Colliery used steam traction until 1979, 11 years after steam finished on Britain's main lines. The 'Austerity' 0-6-0 saddletank was a wartime design produced by several builders, with ... (more)
844 and 3985 with their 22-car ferry move from Cheyenne to Sacramento. The pair are about to enter Palisade Canyon. The town of Carlin, Nevada, is in the background.
A 17-vehicle special on Scotland's remote Far North route, a line which normally sees only 2 car Sprinter Units. It's returning to London after delivering vintage Rolls Royce automobiles and their... (more)
In the days when Britain had winters, 25184 waits for the road with Shrewsbury-Manchester Mayfield vans.
Kearsley power station had a short electrified branch from the Manchester-Bolton main line. There were 3 or 4 of these small electrics, maintained, like the power station, on a standby basis. I ne... (more)
Boiler-fitted 25063 stops for a message from the signalman with the steam-heated 0750 Cardiff-Crewe.
A mist has descended over this well known location on the Settle-Carlisle line, making the conventional view impossible. 'Taw Valley' is northbound.
One of the Isle of Man's famous Beyer Peacock tanks starts its Douglas-bound journey from Port Erin, with a little help from a 400mm lens.
A Crewe Basford Hall-Coatbridge container train heads north along the Clyde Valley on a frosty morning, with Lanarkshire's Tinto Hill landmark in the background. with a light dusting of snow.
A Crewe Basford Hall-Coatbridge container train approaches Abington in Lanarkshire's Clyde Valley, on a frosty morning.
The daily Dalston-Grangemouth petroleum empties approach Abington on a frosty morning - one of the the first of 2007.
