There are now regrettably few lineside locations where you can legitimately stand to get that 'up close and personal' image of passing trains. Steel palisade fencing and the encroachment of linesi... (more)
The regular 'Cotton Mill Express' thunders along the Calder Valley towards Todmorden. Probably uniquely in Britain, the railway, road, river (Calder) and the Rochdale canal are all sandwiched into... (more)
Isn't it great when a plan comes together? The train, the locomotives, the location, the exhaust and crisp early morning sunshine. Sometimes there's that little bit extra, in this case overnight s... (more)
In glorious, crisp weather and with overnight snow still dusting the cutting, the well-traveled combo of 45407 & 76079 power eastward in Pennine country. They are heading up the Tame valley betwee... (more)
On former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway metals, and with the landslip at Brighouse repaired, the 'Cotton Mill Express' returns to the Calder Valley in some style! 45407 & 76079 surge out of Sower... (more)
On a very murky day, the 'Cotton Mill Express' was re-routed through Burnley, Clitheroe & Hellifield following a landslip at Elland on the intended path. Here is the 'Pocket Rocket' climbing hard ... (more)
