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

Tanfield Railway has possibly the highest number of locos for any railway in Britain with a total of 62 of various types. The majority though are awaiting preservation which possibly will never ha... (more)

Tis that time of year again and at Tanfield Railway the first Santa specials of the Christmas season ran in very appropriate weather conditions. It is many years since I remember there being so mu... (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)

With the landscape covered by a thick blanket of frost, West Country Pacific No 34067 Tangmere coasts through Godstone with the Goldern Arrow from London to Folkstone Harbour

A quiet moment on shed at Grosmont

British steam at its very best, the remote Rannoch moor in the Scottish Highlands, wonderful early morning light on a crisp still autumn day. The unmistakable beat of a Black 5 pounding up the in... (more)

A location I have wanted to take for a long time the opportunity came on 10 July 2010 with the running of the Heart of Wales charter. The scene captures industrial dereliction with the Lightship w... (more)

LMS Princess Class No 6201 Princess Elizabeth beings her assault on the steep climb to Shap with the Cumbrian Mountain Express

Visiting engine Sir Berkeley gently steams in the yard along with another visitor 69023. No 49 separates the two.