Another scanned old negative from 1980. Two Class 76s Nos. 76 014 and 76 027 at Guide Bridge. These 1500v DC locos were built specially for the Manchester-Sheffield Woodhead route in the 1950s. In... (more)

Raiding the old negatives for scanning, I came up with this old view from 1980. Class 47 no. 47 351 passes through Guide Bridge Station with a Merry-Go-Round coal service heading back to Yorkshire... (more)

60001 named (The Railway Observer) heads east at Barnetby with the 08.14 Santon to Immingham empty iron ore tipplers .

6V75 from Dee Marsh to Margam via Llanwern seen at East Usk Yard, with the remains of the burned out signalbox and soon to be removed semaphore signal.

Class 390 High Speed Pendolino

This is the famous pyramid at Vic Berry's scrap yard in Leicester, albeit not the largest its ever been. On the top row: 27023 and 25095. On the middle row: 27025, 25249 and 27208. On th... (more)

Due to an earlier train failure, the only loco hauled diagram left had to turn back to the Midlands at Milton Keynes. It is seen here after a layover in Oxley Traincare depot, and this was the ver... (more)

Cardiff Canton based 37131 crosses from the South Central to the South Western sector of the Southern Region at Wimbledon with the 10:20 Didcot to Chessington South speedlink coal working, which o... (more)

56034 'Castell Ogwr/Ogmore Castle' and 56037 'Richard Trevithick' accelerate a loaded Port Talbot to Llanwern iron ore train through Cardiff Central.

56006 in BR blue livery passes a field of poppys at Melton Ross with the 11.33 Scunthorpe to Immingham empty mgr coal hoppers .

Outside the Greater London boundary, yet still served frequently by the 'tube', sleepy Moor Park is disturbed by the arrival of a London-bound service from Watford. Built in the early 1960s, these... (more)

A Hanson liveried Class 59 shortly after leaving Westbury Yard for one of the nearby quarries.

A severely damaged 31245 sits outside Stratford TRS. The locomotive was beyond economical repair and was slowly cut-up on-site over the next 12 months. Both the Stratford TMD and TRS complex no lo... (more)

A military helicopter had been flying in the area for some time, but chose to follow the railway line just as this eastbound FGW HST passed me at Baulking - and in sunshine too. Of course the clou... (more)

A westbound FGW HST set passes the site of the long abandoned Moreton Sidings soon after dawn. Electrification of the Great Western Mainline may see the area of Moreton Sidings reused as an engine... (more)