The Great Reunion. This was the unique occasion in steam preservation when 4 A4 Pacifics 60022 Mallard, 60019 Bittern, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60009 Union of South Africa lined up at the Natio... (more)

Charolais Coal’s former IC SW9’s sit outside the old maintenance building exposed to the elements. The 2 locomotives plus a third unit that was used for parts are land locked by the abandonme... (more)

The weather forecast was set for day of grey misty gloom but high up in Cumbrian Mountains on the climb to Shap Summit the sun broke through briefly just as the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express pa... (more)

The first rays of sun glint on A4 60009 Union of South Africa and K4 No 61994 Great Marquess as they cross Findhorn Viaduct

Sometimes we ask ourselves why we do it, standing in a freezing field before dawn. this is one of the reasons. The sound of the double header could be heard several miles away as ever rising roar,... (more)

With the semaphore signal pulled off A4 No 60009 Union of South Africa and K4 No 61994 Great Marquess restart the Great Britain Railtour watched by an admiring crowd

GWR King No 6024 King Edward I makes a storming entrance to Abergavenny Station with rare November snow on the track.

A total contrast to my last upload of a gently rusting TKt 48 baked under an Albanian summer sun, Here is GWR Castle Class No 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe with brass and paintwork gleaming in the l... (more)

The opportunity to clear out the smokebox at a waterstop on route to improve steaming GWR Manor Class No 7802 Bradley Manor on an excusion from Hereford to Minehead.

7 foot broad guarge meets 4 foot 8 inch standard guarge at Didcot. GWR pannier tank on the left, Broad Guage Firefly on the right

A lone seagull hovers as a storm brews out in the English Channel as the dying rays of the evening summer sun catch the world famous White Cliffs of Dover. Below in a timeless scene Southern Railw... (more)

For those who wondered what was behind the sleek streamlined front of a A4 pacific the world's fastest steam loco, this is the view with the front opened up to clean out the ash from the smokebox.

Classic view, classic train. The Cornish Riviera Express double headed by GWR King and Castle locos No 6024 King Edward I and No 5029 Nunney Castle sprint along the sea wall between Dawlish and Te... (more)

The local switcher hauls out some cars from the vegetable oil plant to the station.

British GWR tank No 5521 far from home on a visit to Poland, the front lanp carrying the poppy in rememerance of railwaymen who servered. Upload today November 11 for Armistice Day (also known as ... (more)