D5830 heads a gala day shuttle towards Rothley (with D5401 trailing)
D6535 rounds the curve at Kinchley Lane, Great Central Railway. 26/4/09
47848, 47843, 47805, 40145 gathered in Riviera Trains' sidings at Crewe.
D5401 accelerating away from Rothley with a TPO rake
D7523 approaching Bishops Lydeard on an early morning freight working
20096 and 20107 on show at a Barrow Hill Open Day. 8/8/09
73119 then recently named 'Borough of Eastleigh' at Eastleigh Works. 16/6/09
50007, 37314 Loughborough GCR. 12/9/09
55019 lays a smokescreen over Rothley. I shouldn't think the neighbours would have appreciated that. 12/9/09
D5185 departs Loughborough as 55019 waits in the station loop for its next duty. 12/9/09
D212 and D182 at Butterley.12/12/09
W55000 Staverton Bridge. This railcar worked branch line services in Devon when new in 1960. 4/4/10
D9009 rolls into Loughborough station. It's a Deltic! Where is everybody?
D9009 'Alycidon' with a footplate experience working near Woodthorpe, Great Central Railway. 22/9/10
55022 powers 'The Norseman' from Spitfire Railtours through Hadley Wood. 11/9/10
45118 awaits an uncertain future in the snow at Derby RTC. 29/11/10
40145 speeds past Shipton just north of York with the 'Whistling Scotsman' weekend special returning from Inverness. 28/8/05
The 'East Lancs Envoy' is seen near Bridlington behind 40145. 24/1/04
44004 'Great Gable' at Swanwick Jn, MRB. 13/9/98
45112 at Penzance during a Fragonset Railways charter. This loco partially failed on its return run to Birmingham and had to be helped up the Lickey Incline by the tailing engine, 31459. 21/7/01
A gathering of classic motive power at the Hammersmith depot of the Midland Railway, Butterley. 13/9/98
Today, this ecs working would have been advertised or even sold as a positioning special. The Sunday after they had both worked specials on the ECML, the DPS Deltics 55019 and D9009 double head their train back north. Lucky I stopped to ask what was coming! 23/5/98
5580 looks very nice but the class 31 was always going to be a poor replacement for the class 35 'Hymeks'. 5/8/00
55019 carries the headboard of the 'Silver Jubilee' from 1977 into York station. Who removed those centre roads? 13/4/02
A fine recreation of a scene inside Barrow Hill shed during its last years under BR, courtesy of the East Midlands Railway Photographic Society. 4/10/02
A controversial makeover that almost ended in the scrapping of this loco: 9016 'Gordon Highlander' in Porterbrook purple heads north out of Milford Tunnel with a special. 12/4/03
D123 'Leicestershire & Derbyshire Yeomanry' (though the name was previously carried by a class 46) looking good at Woodthorpe bridge on the GCR. 29/4/05
One of the early preserved class 47s, D1842 rolls into Bridgnorth during a diesel gala. The loco type was still a regular sight working passenger trains on the national network at this time. 7/5/93
D200 crosses D5061 at Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. 6/8/05
D345 traverses the S&C in glorious weather at Lunds Viaduct with 'The Pennine Fellsman'. 12/7/03
