Converted Royal Scot 4-6-0 No 46106 Gordon Highlander approaches Diggle Junction with a Liverpool to Newcastle express. The train has just left Butterhouse tunnel on the long closed Micklehurst lo... (more)

A former London & North Western Railway G2a 0-8-0 (LMS 7F) passes Diggle Junction with a Liverpool to Leeds goods train that has come up from Stalybridge via the long closed Micklehurst loop. The ... (more)

LMS class 3P 2-6-2T No 40057 at Measurements Halt the the Odham to Delph push/pull train in the early 1950s. This train was known locally as the Delph Donkey. The very basic Measurements Halt was ... (more)

Stanier 'Black Five' 4-6-0 No 44870 pilots Fowler three-cylinder 'Patriot' 4-6-0 No 45515 Caernarvon over Saddleworth viaduct with the 5pm Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle express on a September... (more)

Dark Satanic Mills II - an 8F 2-8-0 drifts downgrade near Linthwaite as it comes down the Colne Valley from Standege tunnel, summit of this tran-Pennine main line between Manchester and Leeds, wit... (more)

A former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 2-4-2T No 50818 performs station pilot duty at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire as an LMS class 4 2-6-4T reverses out of the station. This was one of the ma... (more)

A photograph I know little about showing a trio of 2-8-2s. A pair of NYC engines, with H5 No 1555 nearest, looking like they are about to push a coal train whilst partly hidden is Louisville & Nas... (more)

Here is a third large boilered GNR 4-4-2, No 4444 seen storming past Belle Isle on the way out of Kings Cross with a special for the horse racing at Newmarket. The train is formed of former South ... (more)

Following on from the shot of the pioneer large boilered GNR 4-4-2, one of the later engines No 3300 is seen about to take water from Langley troughs (track pan) with the 4.30pm express to Kings C... (more)

The pioneer Great Northern Railway class C1 Atlantic No 251 was already 25 years old when this photo was taken of it piloting an Ivatt GNR class D2 4-4-0 No 4321 seen taking water from Langley tro... (more)

Here is a second view of former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No 1734 taking water at Civitavecchia station with an 'express' from Rome to Pisa in the aftermath of World War I... (more)

One of the 243 former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0s that were taken into Italian State Railway stock after World War II takes water at Civitavecchia station with an 'express'... (more)

Following my previous posts showing railway horses shunting wagons this is my third and final photo depicting horse shunting. Taken in slightly more recent times, 1951 as against 1926 and 1938, th... (more)

Following my previous post showing a railway shunting horse beside a main line train here is another at Grantham having, appropriately, just shunted a horse box. He does not look too happy! Photo ... (more)

Former Great Eastern Railway 'Claud Hamilton' class 4-4-0 No 8787 passes through Welwyn North station with an up Cambridge Buffet Express heading for Kings Cross, London at line speed as a humble ... (more)