A4 no. 4464 'Bittern' makes a wonderful sight with the Gresley teak coaches, forging up the 1 in 49 gradient of the NYMR at Beck Hole during the May Gala.

World Record Holder, A4 class no 4468 Mallard on display at Locomotion Museum in County Durham. It stands next to the prototype Deltic diesel locomotive. This site is owned by the National Railway... (more)

Just before we close the file (for the time being!) on the Great Northern Railway's elegant Atlantics, here's a fine study by an unknown photographer of 4419 in early LNER days. She's standing wit... (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)

LNER 60019 'Bittern' (running in LNER Blue Livery with it's original LNER No 4464) emerges from Bewdley Tunnel with the 1205 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth during the Severn Valley Railway's Spring St... (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)

Surely, few sights can enthral like this wonderful image, by my friend the late Raymond Rourke. An 'A4' pacific at its magnificent best, captured in garter blue livery with raised aluminium numera... (more)

Glenfinnan viaduct is a 'must' for any photographer visiting the West Highland line. Much less photographed is the sharp curve heading east off the viaduct (visible on the left). The spectacular c... (more)

The men of steel that built the railway across Rannoch Moor, Britain's most remote and desolate moorland terrain were men indeed! Quite how this line survived the savage pruning of the network in ... (more)

Wild and desolate it may be, but Rannoch Moor has many moods to offer, even when the weather is 'challenging'. An unexpected bright patch in an otherwise rain-filled and leaden sky transforms the ... (more)

This fine, atmospheric image taken in 1934 at King's Cross Station by an unknown photographer, shows the classic lines of Class A1 Pacific 'Dick Turpin' The locomotive is about to depart northward... (more)