SDJR 7F 2-8-0 No 88 stands at Bishops Lydeard with the 09:20 departure to Minehead
9351 arrives at Minehead with the 12:40 from Bishops Lydeard
935 WDs, (always know as DubDees) were built as WW2 austerity locomotives for use in liberated Europe. After the war many found there way into stock on various European lines, 733 on British Railw... (more)
The EMD shunter imported to the UK for shunting at Foster Yeoman's Merehead Quaryy, No 44 'Western Yeoman', is shunting a rake of wagons under the loading gantry. It was the reliabilty of this loc... (more)
Middleton Railway’s Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST no. 1601 “Matthew Murray” hauls a pasenger train around the National Railway Museum complex at the Railfest 2004 event. Photo taken from the cab of... (more)
GWR 3440 City Of Truro' at the Didcot Railway Centre. An electronic jigsaw puzzle of this image is available as a free download here : http://www.train-puzzles.com/rp226539.html
The only 4-6-4 tender locomotive to run in Great Britain is seen in its days as a high-pressure 4-cyl compound loco with a 450lb/sq in Yarrow water tube boiler. Built in 1929 it is seen waiting at... (more)
The only 4-6-4 tender locomotive to run in Great Britain, Gresley LNER three-cylinder 4-6-4 No 10000 reverses out of Kings Cross after arriving from Doncaster in 1938. It was rebuilt from a high-p... (more)
A crew member crawls underneath to check the centre big end as recently restored A4 no. 60019 Bittern takes a water stop at York Station while working the Talisman special from London to Newcastle... (more)
On a very wet day back in 1980. 4472 Flying Scotsman climbs Miles Platting Bank out of Manchester Victoria. It went to turn on the triangle at Miles Platting so as to cbe facing the right way to ... (more)
No.140 at work on the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, one cold and frosty morning in the Yorkshire Dales
Panier tank at Bishops Lydeard station on the West Somerset Railway
Didcot Shed, ex GWR 2-8-0 has it's fires drawn at the end of the day. 0-6-0 pannier tank 3738 sits by the combined coal and water plant.
The moon rises in the background as three ex Great Western Railway steamers gather around the water columns at Didcot shed. Since I have been asked a few questions, some notes: The Moon is real, n... (more)
