Steam's days are now numbered. Languishing in the late summer's evening light, unwanted and un-needed, even modern classes like the BR 'Standard 9F' freight locomotives await their fate. They will... (more)
On well maintained track, lengthening afternoon shadows draw the outline of 90351, one of the 730 'Austerity' 2-8-0's. She plods wearily north from Royston with another load of coal from the Barns... (more)
The South Yorkshire town of Royston was (and is) an unlovely place though the 60's at least it had a purpose. The coking plant on the horizon and many local collieries supplied coke & coal to indu... (more)