Ex-LMS 'Jubilee' No.45562 'Alberta' with seven coaches on the drawbar, rolls into Barnsley from the South. She will probably be heading on to Wakefield Kirkgate and Leeds. I am enjoying posting th... (more)

Five days after my 17th birthday and I'd gone south - well as far south as Sheffield anyway. Hey! c'mon it was a big journey in those days! One of the series of Ex-LMS Jubilees named after States ... (more)

40 141 nears the end of its days in the scrapyard at Doncaster Works. Part of the cab, the mainframes, and what I presume is the steam heat boiler rest on the massive 1-CO bogie

At Thornton Junction shed, it was what locals would describe as a "grotty" day. Steam and smoke drift about the depot from the locomotives and the adjacent steam crane. Former North British Railwa... (more)

Standing in this spot today you'd see . . . very little! The MPD has long been razed to the ground replaced by silver birch saplings that obscure any view of the flat hinterland beyond. Once a sig... (more)

An old shot from 1980. Late at night, Class 127s are stabled at Bedford, waiting for another day's work carrying commuters to and from London St. Pancras.

An old shot from 1980. Deltic no. 55 006 The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry approaches Doncaster Station with a train from Kings Cross. Sadly, this view is now spoiled by overhead catenary. The loco was... (more)

An old shot from 1980. 25 222 runs past the site of the old brick works at Clayton Bridge, East Manchester with a strange mixture of freight stock. I wonder who Chris was? The 28 year old slide wa... (more)

An old shot from 1980. A Class 47 zooms through Park Station, East Manchester with a Liverpool to York service. The slide, shot on Kodachrome 64, doesn't seem too bad for 28 years old. The scene h... (more)

This is a lost landscape from South Yorkshire. Steam had been eliminated from British Railways for a couple of years, but in 1970 it still lingered on in dozens of collieries throughout Britain. D... (more)

Deltic no 55 016 Gordon Highlander at rest at Haymarket Depot way back in December 1979.

Chester back in October 1984. Wilson's Brewery of Manchester celebrated its Centenery by chartering Flying Scotsman to pull a special train from Manchester to Chester. Here she is backing onto the... (more)

Class 37 'Tractors' in their heyday - the lunchtime Hunterston-Ravenscraig steelworks coal train has, as usual, attached a 3rd loco up front for the last 2 gruelling miles up to Ravenscraig. This ... (more)

CO/CP stock farewell tour on the flyover at Ealing Common.

GWR 6000 Class 4-6-0 no. 6024 “King Edward I” passes Hay bridge with the Royal Train. This was the first visit of the Royal Train to the Severn Valley Railway, and the first time it had been s... (more)