Once in a while it's nice to stop 'chasing' and just to capture a quiet moment as a train awaits departure. On one such idyllic summer's Sunday morning, with just a fluffy white cloud for company,... (more)

Regular viewers will have come to realise that I'm in love with my home county, Yorkshire with its unrivalled variety of landscape. From village to city, from mountain to moor, from open plains to... (more)

The river Calder flows under the 23-arch (14 in view) Copley viaduct built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1857 to carry traffic from Halifax into Lancashire via the Calder valley. The ot... (more)

Dad's car came in for some mileage in the summer of 1966. I ventured north to Carlisle and I was fortunate to capture passing Black 5's, two working locos in view were a rarity by this time. The s... (more)

Now a regular fixture, the 'Cotton Mill Express' runs downhill towards Huddersfield through Slaithwaite (locals pronounce it 'Slaa-wit'). Though much cleaner and genteel than of yore, it is one of... (more)

Several preserved railways can boast a steam crane on their stock lists. Few are as magnificently presented as the Cowans Sheldon example based at Ingrow on the KWVR. Here she is, in lovely early ... (more)

There may be more spectacular places in the world to see a steam locomotive in action, but I'd venture there are none more beautiful than Berwyn. The River Dee cascades over falls overlooked by th... (more)

One of the most widely traveled locomotives in preservation is seen here crossing the River Irwell on her home ground. In fact the Irwell is crossed and re-crossed no less than eight times between... (more)