Texas
5 photos
1973 road trip from Vienna
6 photos
GCR 2024 Winter Gala
18 photos, 1 video
Far East 1979-81
49 photos
Dart Valley Railway
4 photos
Cornwall 2023
25 photos, 1 video
France June 2023
19 photos, 3 videos
Germany & France April 2023
57 photos
Drone captures
20 photos, 2 videos
DJI Mini2 drone
New Zealand October 1980
9 photos
GCR O4 2-8-0 63601
7 photos
GCR January 2023 Gala
18 photos, 2 videos
China 2014 Presentation
211 photos
The Southern Cresent
20 photos
France October 2022
49 photos, 2 videos
GCR 2022 Autumn Gala
27 photos, 2 videos
Thursday 29th September to Sunday 2nd October 2022.
Visiting engines were NELPG's J27 0-6-0 65894 and Ivatt 2 2-6-2T 41312.
Severn Valley Gala September 2022
20 photos
Family Photos from the 1920s-1970s
6 photos
Mainly from a box of photos I found in my parents's effects.
London 4th-5th July 2022
11 photos
GWSR
23 photos, 3 videos
Cornwall & Devon 1975
35 photos
Draper's scrapyard Hull 1968
2 photos
Germany & France May/June 2022
30 photos
Birmingham
37 photos, 2 videos
D6700
1 photo
Forest of Dean Railway
6 photos
Cornwall March/April 2022
26 photos
Sandaoling China 2014
11 photos
Beyond the Flail
57 photos, 6 videos
GCR line clearance Loughborough-Leicester North
GCR Winter Gala 2022
30 photos
Alicante-Denia metre-gauge Spain
33 photos, 2 videos
Spain
182 photos, 6 videos
Oct 2021 GCR Gala
43 photos
Cornwall September 2021
27 photos, 1 video
Bristol
5 photos
Railways at Work August 2021
10 photos
East Kirkby Mosquito
16 photos, 1 video
Mexico November 1978
8 photos
Canada Rockies August 1982
21 photos
Mobil field trip
Manifold Valley Walk 30th May 2021
6 photos
GWSR 18th May 2021
7 photos
Cornwall May 2021
24 photos
Bowstring Bridge
22 photos
Neil Smedley 1960s Collection
248 photos
Neil was based in Nottingham but made lots of spotting visits all around the UK, many with the Nottingham branch of the RCTS.
All photos are copyright Neil Smedley.
34039 Boscastle
6 photos, 1 video
Photo Competition 2020
1 photo
Dorset & Cornwall Oct 2020
63 photos
San Francisco-New Orleans November 1978
42 photos
7027 Thornbury Castle
10 photos
Dundee
10 photos
Cornwall, Devon & Somerset 2020
30 photos
NYMR
32 photos, 1 video
Main Line Steam
406 photos, 24 videos
Ipswich
19 photos, 1 video
France August 1970 Minivan Holiday
6 photos
4141
55 photos, 6 videos
Great Western Large Prairie 2-6-2T 4141
Ken Scriven
13 photos
Virtual Goods Galore 2020
16 photos
It's the 2019 Goods Galore really but 2020 was cancelled because of the dreaded coronavirus.
Middle East
9 photos
Cotton Mill Express 29th March 2020
12 photos
Burma 2020
77 photos, 2 videos
Polar Express December 2019
35 photos, 3 videos
GCR Last Hurrah November 2019
21 photos
Malaysia
18 photos, 2 videos
2019 October GCR Gala
28 photos
France Road Trip Sept -Oct 2019
68 photos
A two week road cruise from Calais, through southern Belgium, across Alsace-Lorraine, briefly into Germany at Freiburg, a couple of days in the Swiss Alps, then to Evian on Lac Leman, through the...
Kings Cross London
38 photos
Wensleydale Railway
12 photos
Scunthorpe Steelworks Tour August 2019
15 photos
The Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservaion brakevan tour.
Orford Ness August 2019
9 photos
Epping & Ongar Railway
12 photos
Butler Henderson
8 photos, 1 video
GCR Improved Director 4-4-0 50, later BR D11 62660.
Ireland July 2019
4 photos
China 1983 Videos
1 photo, 22 videos
Fish June 2019
14 photos
The Losehill Hotel Hope Derbyshire
11th-13th June 019
Crewe Open Day 8th June 2019
15 photos
Princes Risborough & Chinnor Railway
2 photos
Leicester Midland
27 photos, 2 videos
Leicester London Road station 1974-77
48305 Stanier 8F
397 photos, 13 videos
Portugal May 2019
9 photos
GCR Goods Galore 2019
32 photos
Italy 2019
42 photos
Liverpool
23 photos
Great Central Gala January 2019
33 photos
Scottish National Museum of Mining
4 photos
Antwerp Belgium
14 photos
Welsh Highland Railway
9 photos
GCR Last Hurrah November 2018
27 photos, 1 video
GCR Autumn Gala 2018
51 photos
70 years since the Loco Exchange Trials the GCR fielded 10 engines in steam: B1 1264 as 1251, 34092, 73156, 92214, 48624, 46521, 78018, 70013, 47406 and 6990 which actually participated in the trials...
Great Central Railway August 2018
53 photos
50 years since the End of BR Steam - 1st August...
82 photos
I took a day off work & made a pilgrimage to Rose Grove & Lostock Hall sheds 3 days before the end of BR steam. There were quite a few enthusiasts around but nowhere near the crowds that...
Norway 2018
27 photos
D6535
17 photos
D123
60 photos, 4 videos
30777
276 photos, 3 videos
45305
606 photos, 19 videos
North Norfolk Railway
22 photos
70013
754 photos, 15 videos
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway 2018-2023
42 photos, 1 video
Firing turns in June/July 2018 with 47406 and 78018 in 2019 & Owner's rep in 2023
73156 War Weekend 1st June 2018
9 photos
Amboise France May 2018
16 photos
GCR Goods Galore May 2018
21 photos
Dampf Spektakel Trier April-May 2018
53 photos
70013 & 6990 GCR 4th April 2018
14 photos
Cathedrals Express 70013 22nd Feb 2018
31 photos
Oldham Lancashire
21 photos
GCR 2018 Winter Gala
21 photos
January 26th-28th 2018
B12 8572 & Crab 13065
Burma 2018
178 photos, 2 videos
We stayed with friends in Rangoon/Myanmar before and after participating in FarRail's Steam & Pagodas Tour.
Porsche Boxster 718
9 photos
France December 2017
17 photos
GCR Santa Train 26th November 2017
8 photos
Last Hurrah GCR 18th-19th Nov 2017
17 photos
Huddersfield-Carnforth 14th November 2017
11 photos
London 26th-29th October 2017
8 photos
70013 NVR to Southall 10-11th October 2017
17 photos
A positioning move to Southall shed for BR Standard 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell and support coach 4 days after working the Norwich to Matlock railtour
GCR Autumn Gala 2017
22 photos
Cameroon 2002
14 photos
Halifax Queensbury Lines
7 photos
Inaugural Run of 73156 13th Sept 2017
21 photos
70013 Cathedrals Express 5th September 2017
34 photos
London Victoria to Yeovil Junction & loco preparation
Vic32 Clyde Puffer
11 photos
East Kirkby Air Display 5th August 2017
19 photos, 1 video
Tower Bridge London
10 photos
London 7th-9th July 2017
17 photos
Kiel May 1945 & May 2017
8 photos
RNAS FAA Yeovilton
13 photos
Holland & Germany May 2017
77 photos, 1 video
Roman Leicester
10 photos
GCR Goods Galore May 2017
15 photos
60163 Tornado NVR 22nd April 2017
10 photos
Southern Q Photo Charter 31st January 2017
9 photos
East Lancs Railway Gala March 2017
25 photos
78 Derngate Northampton 21st March 2017
13 photos
Rome February 2017
43 photos
Thorne railway stations
43 photos, 3 videos
GCR Gala January 2017
30 photos
The visiting engine was Southern Maunsell Q 0-6-0 30541 but 9 other GCR-based locos were also in steam.
73156
385 photos, 12 videos
Holland & France December 2016
33 photos
Just Jane Lancaster 18th October 2016
21 photos, 1 video
RAF East Kirkby Lincolnshire
GCR Autumn Gala 2016
43 photos, 1 video
Poughkeepsie New York USA May 1979
7 photos
GCR 6990 14th September 2016
9 photos
France 2016
31 photos
50th Anniversary GCR Closure
12 photos
78018
252 photos, 8 videos
Scotland August 2016
24 photos, 1 video
Sheffield Victoria July 2016
16 photos
Abbey Pumping Station Open Day 25th June 2016
4 photos
Fish 2016 North Yorkshire
22 photos
Railways at Work GCR 22nd May 2016
10 photos
Germany & Poland May 2016
127 photos, 3 videos
Ireland April 2016
49 photos
Patrick Doherty's 60th birthday party in Ennis, Co. Clare
Leicester to Huddersfield 13th April 2016
18 photos
Easter 2016
44 photos
Vulcan XH558 VIP Event
7 photos
Madrid March 2016
34 photos
60103 Flying Scotsman
66 photos, 3 videos
Milan & Como February 2016
26 photos
GCR Southern Weekend February 2016
13 photos
GCR Gala 29th-31st January 2016
31 photos
LNER line to Alexandra Palace
10 photos
London 16th-18th January 2016
13 photos
Milan December 2015
28 photos
GCR Last Hurrah, 22nd November 2015
14 photos
Mulhouse Railway Museum March 1988 & 2019
14 photos
Kent & East Sussex Railway
4 photos
GCR Mid-Week trains 28th October 2015
14 photos
Baiyin China November 2014
88 photos, 2 videos
Mountsorrel Branch
28 photos
Paris-Troyes 5th June 1988
9 photos
Railway Journey Leicester-Huddersfield 14th...
11 photos
GCR Gala October 2015
28 photos
Barrow Hill September 2015
37 photos
Great Central September 2015 Beer Festival
13 photos
Godalming September 2015
4 photos
Darlington August 2015
7 photos
Jacobite Support Crew 2015
63 photos
Saturday 22nd August to Friday 28th August 2015
Photographs of support crew on K1 62005
Numbered 1 to 55 in date & time sequence
Jacobite August 2015
2 photos
NYMR August 2015
8 photos
Leicester to Huddersfield 13th August 2015
4 photos
London 8th August 2015
15 photos
6990 Witherslack Hall
288 photos, 7 videos
Cornwall & the SW July 2015
30 photos
France July 2015
20 photos
92212 Photo Charter 23rd June 2015
15 photos
Modelling Weekend Great Central 19th June 2015
8 photos
On its last weekend at the GCR Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 43106 worked trains during the Modelling event.
Woodford Weekend 13th-14th July 2015
37 photos
It's 50 years since the closure of Woodford Halse shed and the GCR "celebrated" this significant date.
GCR War Weekend 6th June 2015
13 photos
Fish 2015 Windermere
7 photos
Settle & Carlisle Railway
31 photos, 4 videos
WD Austerity Engines
46 photos, 1 video
GWSR Gala 23rd May 2015
15 photos
London Islington 15th May 2015
4 photos
45305 GCR 9th May 2015
22 photos
Kirklees Light Railway
5 photos
Richard III Leicester
10 photos
Portugal 2015
94 photos
7820 Photo Charter 12th Feb 2015
12 photos
GCR Winter Gala January 2015
27 photos
West Yorkshire 2015-23
476 photos, 4 videos
Huddersfield, Halifax and places within easy reach
Christmas 2014
17 photos, 1 video
Bletchley Park 2014 & 2015
8 photos
Ireland December 2014
9 photos
China 2014
388 photos, 16 videos
Cathedrals Express 70013 11th October 2014
40 photos
Sussex Oct 2014 & Earlier
74 photos
"My" Engines
454 photos, 4 videos
60163
73156
34039
82045
78019
46521
Great Central Railway Autumn 2014 Gala
39 photos
The Lakelander 8th May 1976
40 photos
LNER A3 4472, B1 1306 & LNWR Hardwick on Carnforth to Ravenglass
Barrow Hill 27th September 2014
14 photos
Avro Vulcan
35 photos
Severn Valley Gala September 2014
15 photos
Xian China October 1983
19 photos, 2 videos
Ireland 2014
52 photos
GCR King Arthur Turn 24th August 2014
10 photos
GCR Jinty Turn 21st August 2014
12 photos
The Jacobite August 2014
36 photos
Buenos Aires Argentina June 2014
37 photos
Zagreb Croatia May 2014
11 photos
BR 9F 2-10-0 92214
381 photos, 10 videos
Our latest acquisition, thanks to Cromwell Tools.
sintra
7 photos
Brazil 2014
30 photos
Alentejo Portugal
44 photos
HH3
34 photos
Museu do Ar Sintra 2014
9 photos
Portugal 2014
194 photos
Walk around Alstonefield Staffs 2nd Feb 2014
8 photos
Patrick & Sheila visit 1st-2nd February 2014.
Bradgate Park & ride on GCR.
Walk around Alstonefield Staffs 2nd Feb 2014
GCR January 2014 Gala
36 photos
Trip to Hereford 14th January 2014
12 photos
Colchester Christmas 2013
12 photos
GCR Christmas Trains 2013
21 photos
Wigston North December 2013
11 photos
London & Greenwich 30th November 2013
19 photos
Derbyshire 14th-15th November 2013
8 photos
60163 Tornado Nene Valley 2nd November 2013
10 photos
British Railways Standard 2 78019
223 photos, 6 videos
70013 Cheshireman 17th-20th October 2013
66 photos, 4 videos
Great Central Railway - One hour at Rothley 6th...
15 photos
In my one hour at the station between 16.05 and 17.05 I observed a total of 9 trains/engine movements with 7 different locomotives which is not bad going. I only missed the Caprotti 5.
The Great...
Great Central Railway Gala October 2013
27 photos
Rochdale-Manchester Victoria by Tram & Train...
31 photos
Yorkshire Air Museum Elvington September 2013
7 photos
Touwsrivier South Africa
23 photos
73129 Standard Caprotti 5
32 photos, 2 videos
Entroncamento Portugal
30 photos
The Azores August 2013
28 photos
Douro Valley Portugal August 2013
43 photos
Scotland 1971
15 photos
The Jacobite 2013
20 photos
Glenfinnan Scotland July 2013
8 photos
A4 Great Gathering 12th July 2013
8 photos
Mary & Sarah Portugal June 2013
11 photos
Evora-Estremoz Branch Portugal
10 photos
Fish Weekend May 2013
9 photos
NRM York
55 photos
West Somerset Railway
26 photos
Great Central Swithland Gala 27th April 2013
17 photos
Newark Air Museum
3 photos
East Lancashire Railway
59 photos, 1 video
6023 photo Charter 18th March 2013
10 photos, 1 video
Portugal (Galp) 2013
232 photos
GWR King 4-6-0s
90 photos, 4 videos
Thorne Colliery South Yorkshire
19 photos
Great Northern Railway N2 0-6-2T 1744
111 photos, 1 video
Algarve Portugal January 2013
19 photos
GCR Winter Gala 2013
40 photos, 1 video
LT150 London 20th January 2013
13 photos, 1 video
Nottingham Trams
20 photos
GWSR 30th December 2012
6 photos, 1 video
South Yorkshire Boxing Day 2012
17 photos
GCR Christmas Trains 2012
12 photos
Quainton Road Bucks
3 photos
Venice November 2012
32 photos
Gloucestershire November 2012
9 photos
La Petite & Grande Ceinture Paris
35 photos
The Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (shown in red above) as the name (small belt) suggests was a railway that ran around Paris following a circular path within the former fortifications shown in...
46235 City of Birmingham
6 photos
Malta 2006
18 photos
Turkish Railways Steam 1990
26 photos, 2 videos
Locos used to pull our train on its round tour from Ankara to Izmir were:- Vulcan Skyliner 2-10-0 56359, Skoda 2-10-0 56140, Henschel 2-10-0 56052, Beyer-Peacock 2-10-0 56109 (failed), Henschel 2-8-2...
Gloucestershire October 2012
16 photos
Hong Kong 1981
11 photos
Great Central MIC 14th October 2012
23 photos
GCR Gala October 2012
36 photos
I fired GWR 0-6-0PT 9466 with the engine's support crew on Friday 5th October, the second day of the Great Central Railways' Autumn Gala and BR Standard 2 2-6-0 78019 on Sunday 7th October. 9466 and...
Datong China October 1983
39 photos, 1 video
Datong Locomotive Works was the last major railway workshop in the world to built new main line steam engines on a regular basis.
The lighting conditions were very poor and I didn't have a tripod...
Thomas Weekend 30th September 2012
14 photos
Next weekend may be for the enthusiasts Gala but this weekend belongs to the kids!
Rostered as fireman on Thomas I thought I might as well embrace it and record what will probably be the last Thomas...
Verdun France December 1969
26 photos
14th to 19th December
Richard III Leicester 22nd September 2012
7 photos
Leicester has hit the headlines worldwide for once. Over the summer the University of Leicester, with the Council & Richard III Society, have been excavating the area around the medieval church...
Scotland 2012
51 photos
Dijon & Morvan France September 2012
18 photos
Sydenham Shed Port Elizabeth South Africa 1982
19 photos
Railway Turntables
100 photos
De Aar & Kimberley South Africa 1982
47 photos
Sheila & Patrick 11th - 12th August 2012
7 photos
Iceland August 2012
26 photos
RAF Museum Cosford Shropshire
18 photos
Snow Hill Station Birmingham
101 photos
A collection of shots of the old Snow Hill 1969-1977 with a smattering of modern-day Snow Hill.
Final Disposal 63601 25th June 2012
8 photos
Minis
44 photos
Island Line IOW June 2012
19 photos
Isle of Wight June 2012
40 photos
Eastleigh 12th June 2012
9 photos
NCB Philadelphia & other Mines 2nd June 1968
27 photos
We spent a day or so over the Whitsuntide holiday checking out industrial steam around Sunderland in Co. Durham (Tyne & Wear). Unfortunately no steam was working as all the pits were shut down...
Fish Weekend The Lakes May 2012
4 photos
NRM Shildon
7 photos
Military Museum Hanoi Vietnam
13 photos
Railway Hue Vietnam
10 photos
Cambodia & Vietnam April 2012
87 photos
The East Riding
18 photos
Speke Junction & Edge Hill sheds June 1968
11 photos
Nene Valley Railway 3rd April 2012
11 photos, 1 video
Great Central 60s Gala April 2012
16 photos
There were 7 locos out over the 1960s Gala Weekend: 48624, 78019, 46521, 63601, 47406, 4953 & visiting Hunslet Austerity 22.
I was firing 78019 on the Sunday afternoon turn. Sign on 11.45,...
Aberdeen 26th March 2012
7 photos
60103 Datex Llangollen 1995
15 photos, 1 video
Edinburgh Scotland March 2012
22 photos
The Tynesider 10th March 2012
33 photos
Cleethorpes to Morpeth & York passing through my home town of Thorne in South Yorkshire.
Ivatt Class 2 46521
293 photos, 4 videos
LMS Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 46521 is owned by Charles Newton & the Loughborough Standard Locomotives Group Ltd.
Built at Swindon in 1953, this locomotive spent its entire working life on former GWR...
LISPB Seismic Refraction 1974
31 photos
LISPB = Lithospheric Seismic Profile in Britain. A crustal/upper mantle scale refraction seismic experiment. The profile ran from offshore Dorset England to offshore Caithness Scotland.
Shot points...
Cumbrian Mountain Express
39 photos, 1 video
The first of 4 CMEs (Preston-S&C - Carlisle - Shap - Carnforth planned for February 2012 with 5305LA locos 45305 & 70013.
45305 ran engine and van from York NRM to Carnforth on Friday 3rd...
GCR January 2012 Gala
32 photos
Hartington Derbyshire
8 photos
70013 Photo Charter 17th January 2012
5 photos
Great Central Santa Plus 18th December 2011
9 photos
London & Greenwich December 2011/12/14
16 photos
Dad's 90th Birthday
2 photos
Cathedrals Express 70013 8th December 2011
18 photos, 1 video
Oman December 2011
18 photos
Suffolk November 2011
9 photos, 1 video
Footplate candid
380 photos, 1 video
Swanage Railway
6 photos, 1 video
The Devonian 22nd October 2011
33 photos, 2 videos
GCR October 2011 S&D Gala
19 photos
Cornwall October 2011
16 photos
Canada
10 photos, 1 video
Portugal September 2011
13 photos
Stanier 8F 2-8-0
482 photos, 5 videos
Cathedrals Express 25th August 2011
26 photos, 2 videos
A day out on the 5305LA support crew with British Railways Standard 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell pulling the Cathedrals Express. Starting at 07.10 from Crewe we ran Engine & coach to Preston...
Scarborough Flyer 12th August 2011
36 photos, 2 videos
I was on the 5305LA support crew for British Railways Standard pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell preparing it for, and riding with, the Scarborough Flyer from Crewe to Scarborough return.
We travelled...
Spitfire
17 photos
GCR Mail by Rail 24th July 2011
16 photos
Diesel-hydraulics
58 photos
Degree Ceremony Reading 7th July 2011
4 photos
45305 Coast to Coast 2nd July 2011
47 photos, 2 videos
The Railway Travel Company, West Coast Railways & 5305LA ran the Coast to Coast Express from Liverpool (dep. 06.39) to Scarborough. The train travelled on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway...
Copenhagen Denmark
33 photos
GCR War Weekend June 2011
6 photos
GCR Golden Oldies May 2011
14 photos
Morecambe Lancashire 2011
10 photos
Fish 2011
3 photos
Railways of Indonesia
48 photos
Jakarta to Pulau Putri 1981
7 photos
Ships & Boats
104 photos, 1 video
Sibayak Volcano Sumatra 1981
10 photos
Battlefield Line Market Bosworth
25 photos, 1 video
Didcot Railway Centre
27 photos
GCR 1960s Gala 25-26th March 2011
26 photos, 1 video
Singapore & Batam March 2011
8 photos
A one week visit in March 2011 plus a few Singapore shots from the 1980s.
Wedding Batam Indonesia March 2011
9 photos, 1 video
Doddy & Laetitia's Lombok wedding in Batam.
The Western Cavalier June 1977
10 photos
Railway Signals & Signal Boxes
344 photos, 2 videos
GCR Winter Gala January 2011
27 photos
London 26th January 2011
7 photos
Norway 2011
84 photos
RAF Finningley Open Days
34 photos
1963, 1966, 1968 & 1972 Open Days and what is now Robin Hood Airport.
GWR 5526 3rd Jan 2011
8 photos
GCR Santa Specials December 2010
12 photos
RAF Cottesmore Harriers 2010
3 photos, 1 video
The last operational flight of 15 Harriers from RAF Cottesmore in Rutland on 15th December 2010.
Newmarket & Bury St Edmunds Stations Jun 2010
7 photos
Bluebell Railway
52 photos
Mayo Ireland Nov 2010
22 photos
Woodhams Scrapyard Barry
186 photos
Over 200 steam engines and a handful of diesels were dumped in the sidings at Barry Docks in the 1960s. Against all the odds Woodham's Brothers didn't scrap them as they intended to so most survived...
Videos
258 videos
Cauldon Lowe Re-Opening Special
9 photos
Newton Abbot Devon
11 photos
Aberdeen, Scotland
28 photos
France October 2010
4 photos
71000 Duke of Gloucester
35 photos, 3 videos
Great Central Railway Gala October 2010
32 photos, 1 video
Portugal 2010
43 photos
Llandudno & N Wales 2010
27 photos
Mary & Scott's Wedding
11 photos
Severn Valley Railway
94 photos, 3 videos
Australia 1979
65 photos
Dorset Coast Express 18 Aug 2010
24 photos
Quick & dirty shots taken with a Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000 disposable camera of the Dorset Coast Express on Wednesday 18th August 2010.
Not my usual camera I have to say but an unfortunate...
Shakespeare Express 1st August 2010
12 photos
Vintage Trains regular Summer (4th July to 12th September) steam train from Birmingham Snow Hill to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire is known as the Shakespeare Express for obvious reasons.
Dorset Coast Express 30777 Sir Lamiel
30 photos
Support Crew duty on the Dorset Coast Express with 30777 Sir Lamiel from London Victoria to Weymouth and light engine to Yeovil Junction.
Cibatu Java Indonesia 1981
18 photos
A visit to Cibatu shed and station plus a detour to Garut station on the way in June 1981.
Buckinghamshire July 2010
14 photos
Huddersfield & Clayton West December 1982
31 photos
Hong Kong
8 photos
Ireland 2010
39 photos
North Wales en route to Holyhead ferry and Irish scenes mainly around Castlebar, Foxford & Boherhallagh in Mayo but also from Dublin, Wicklow, Offaly, Roscommon, Meath & Galway.
Blackpool Lancashire
8 photos, 1 video
India 1981
62 photos
Returning to Medan in June after a vacation in England we broke our journey in India spending time in Bombay, New Delhi & Agra.
The North Yorkshireman 1981
16 photos
25th May 1981.
LNER A4 Pacific 4498 (BR 60007) Sir Nigel Gresley pulled the The North Yorkshireman railtour from Carnforth to Keighley - for a day on the KWVR - and back to Carnforth.
Fish 2010
9 photos
The Tyne-Tay Express 1980
19 photos
Railtour from Newcastle to Carlisle behind Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 44767 and Edinburgh to Dundee behind LNER Gresley A4 4-6-2 60009 Union of South Africa.
Richard
12 photos
Burton on Trent Staffs
6 photos
Peru 1980
15 photos
Selby Yorkshire
10 photos
Selby North Eastern Railway station on the East Coast Main Line (until 1983).
Malaysia Train to KL 1981
13 photos
Photos taken on trip from Penang, Butterworth to KL & Singapore by train.
Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum
10 photos, 1 video
Tyseley Birmingham
70 photos
King Arthur April 2010
15 photos
I was a member of the 5305LA Support Team for the St George's Day Cathedrals Express from London Victoria to Stratford upon Avon returning to London Clapham Junction on 23rd April. We cleaned and...
Compiègne France April 2010
10 photos
Tornado at Leicester North
12 photos
A short sequence at Leicester North station on the Great Central Railway. It combines shots from three different days over the Easter 2010 period to illustrate the procedure at the terminus.
National Trust
68 photos
Sussex Belle 24th February 2010
31 photos
The Sussex Belle ran from London Victoria (dep. 10.44) behind BR Standard Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell to Hastings and back (arr. 16.13). The outward journey was via Bromley South, Lenham, Ashford...
5305LA Support February 2010
32 photos
On 22nd February 2010 British Railways Britannia Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell & SR 4-6-0 30777 Sir Lamiel left the East Lancs Railway Bury after starring in their Winter Gala.
The two engines...
Leicester & Bradgate February 2010
7 photos
46229 Duchess Double 6th April 1991
6 photos, 1 video
Essex &Suffolk
81 photos, 1 video
GCR Winter Gala 2010
28 photos
Billed as :- LOSTOCK HALL AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS.
I was rostered as fireman on Jubilee 4-6-0 5690 Leander on 29th January & Jinty 0-6-0T 47406 on its debut in preservation on 30th January 2010....
Cars & Vehicles
170 photos
Birmingham University
36 photos
In the 1970s
Penistone Station 1981
7 photos
The Woodhead Route between Hadfield and Penistone closed completely from July 1981. Unfortunately for me I was living abroad and I couldn't make my visit until September. So a few shots of the...
Greece
18 photos
Wolverhampton
18 photos
Sheffield Victoria Station 1981
19 photos
A visit to the remains of the MSLR/Great Central Railway/LNER/British Railways Eastern Region station on Sunday 5th September 1981.
I took a whole roll of film at Victoria, developed it but never...
Deltic Class 55 Diesels
45 photos, 1 video
Austria
67 photos
Space Centre Leicester
6 photos
Photo Charters Great Central Railway
87 photos, 1 video
This set covers those Photo Charters that I was rostered as fireman on the loco rather than participated as a photographer.
Great Central Railway Steam Gala October 2009
40 photos
The GCR/Steam Railway Autumn Gala had 7 main line engines in steam and a very intensive timetable (thanks to Alan Pakes & Rob Smith). From the hordes of people on the platforms, on the trains and...
West Highlander Steam Special September 2009
40 photos
Preston-Carlisle-Glasgow-Fort William-Mallaig and return by steam (700 miles) from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th September 2009.
Our train was hauled by LMS Jubilee 45690, LNER K4 61994 & LNER K1...
Goole and district
17 photos
The West Riding of Yorkshire's only port although today there is no West Riding and Goole is in East Yorkshire.
GCR Mail by Rail 25th-26th July 2009
25 photos
Mail by Rail Gala both as a photographer and as a participant
Nottingham
97 photos
Hull East Yorkshire
32 photos
Haute Savoie France 2009
56 photos
France Weekend Poisson 2009
33 photos
Carnforth Lancashire
101 photos, 1 video
Stavanger & Rogaland Norway
77 photos
Oil & Gas North Sea
22 photos, 2 videos
Portugal 1970
28 photos
Sweden
45 photos
From 2008 and 2009
Barrow Hill Roundhouse
62 photos, 1 video
The last operational railway roundhouse in the UK. Great atmosphere.
www.barrowhill.org/
60163 Tornado
140 photos, 1 video
Firing at the LNER Weekend 5th April 2009, the Great Central Railway 2008, the naming ceremony at York in February 2009, at Barrow Hill, at the Nene Valley Railway, Tornado when and wherever.
Norway 2009
71 photos
70013 Oliver Cromwell
531 photos, 10 videos
British Railways Standard 7MT 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell photographed from 1968 to 2009 on the Main Line and in preservation.
Derby
31 photos
Netherlands
72 photos, 7 videos
Dad RAF Regiment
22 photos
German Railways
177 photos, 5 videos
NW Leicestershire/ S Derbyshire
15 photos
A series of photographs taken in the area roughly bounded by Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Moira and Swadlincote.
Scunthorpe, Skegness & North Lincolnshire
69 photos
Photos in and around Scunthorpe and north Lincolnshire - Watersmeet to Skegness. Mostly railways, it has to be said.
Xmas 2008
12 photos
Colchester & Leicester. Christmas & New Year.
Cathedrals Express December 2008
25 photos
Southern Railway King Arthur 4-6-0 30777 Sir Lamiel hauled the Steam Dreams Special on 9th December from London Waterloo to Salisbury direct returning via Southampton & Winchester. I helped out...
On the Footplate
1765 photos, 24 videos
Photos on and from the footplate of steam locomotives in various locations including out on the main line, although most are GCR related.
Göteborg Sweden
28 photos
A short break to this south Swedish city 4 hours train ride from Oslo.
Described by the Sunday Times as "Scandanavia's most enjoyable city with the best entertainment and the best food in the...
Fish 2008 Norfolk & the Lakes
26 photos
Heacham and Norfolk 7th -10th March 2008.
The Lake District 19th - 22nd June 2008
Buses Trolleys & Trams
174 photos, 2 videos
KWVR
152 photos, 4 videos
Railways of Norway
81 photos
I'm working on a 6 month contract for German Oil & Gas company Wintershall. I plan to check out the railways of Norway in my spare time. The results will be posted here.
Norway 2008
166 photos
Photos from April to September 2008 taken during my period working for Wintershall in Oslo.
Steam Engine Preparation & Disposal
170 photos
At the Great Central Railway, Loughborough Leicestershire. www.gcrailway.co.uk/
Engines 30777, 44422 45305, 35005, 5643 & 78019
Staffordshire / Derbyshire
70 photos
Photos in the area south of Hartington where the River Dove forms the border between Staffordshire to the west & Derbyshire to the east and west towards the Manifold Valley.
My mapping...
Stoke on Trent Staffordshire
56 photos
Stoke & its industry.
Aircraft
254 photos, 6 videos
Buxton
15 photos
1960s & 2000s, mainly railways
French Railways
217 photos, 17 videos
1969 to 2007. Verdun, Paris, Bretagne & more to come.
France
459 photos, 17 videos
France from 1969 on. Holidays to working and living in Paris.
Bradford Yorkshire UK
13 photos
Chicago 1978
27 photos
A trip from New Orleans to Chicago in November 1978
Le Touquet November 2007
8 photos
Turkey
34 photos, 2 videos
USA
202 photos, 2 videos
Sicily 2007
37 photos
South Africa 1982
238 photos
We were there on a 3 week holiday arriving in Jo'burg & rented a car. Armed with a variety of shed permits my wife & I did a circuit east to Kruger, south to Natal, west to Capetown &...
Heaton Mersey shed Stockport
71 photos
May & June 1968
Irish Railways
100 photos, 1 video
Glynn Reunion Co. Clare 2007
17 photos
A small subset of photos.
Bretagne July 2007
41 photos
Leicester
551 photos, 10 videos
Scotland
240 photos, 3 videos
Boherhallagh, Co. Mayo, Ireland
18 photos
Industry
176 photos, 2 videos
1972 Europe Road Trip
92 photos
From Thorne to Beirut & return by Minivan, boat, plane & train. March to August 1972
London Stations
257 photos, 9 videos
Poland
52 photos, 8 videos
Steam around Wosztyn & Poznan 2000-2003
Thorne
149 photos, 1 video
Views of Thorne, South Yorkshire, UK
Mines & Mining
83 photos
China
272 photos, 22 videos
Sheffield stations
73 photos
Great Central Railway Leicester Walk 1976
59 photos, 1 video
The remains of the GCR as seen 40 years ago in May 1976, seven years after total closure & ten years since through trains were withdrawn. The photos are roughly arranged from south to north....
Bolton shed
44 photos
Bolton shed in Lancashire near the end of its life in 1968
Patricroft shed Manchester
56 photos
Lostock Hall shed Preston
70 photos
I made three visits to Lostock Hall shed before the end of steam in August 1968. 10D together with 10A Carnforth and 10F Rose Grove were the very last of the hundreds of locomotive depots on British...
Manchester stations
56 photos, 3 videos
Stockport
33 photos
Edgeley, Tiviot Dale, Heaton Mersey
Burnley Rose Grove shed
63 photos
Rose Grove shed, Burnley Lancashire near the end of its life in 1968.
Steam Graveyards
213 photos
Barry, Hull, Rawmarsh, Newport, Poland, Chesterfield, wherever 1968 on
Newton Heath Shed Manchester
46 photos, 1 video
Photos taken in 1968 at the shed north of Manchester Victoria in the weeks prior to its closure to steam on 29th June.
Birmingham Stations
177 photos, 5 videos
Birmingham Snow Hill, New Street plus Wolverhampton & other stations 1969-1977
Indonesia
154 photos, 1 video
A collection of photos taken when we lived in Medan, 1979-81, a visit to North Sumatra in 1993 and to Java & Bali in 1998
Old Ireland
6 photos
Ireland 2004-7
77 photos, 1 video
Fish Weekend 2006 & 2007
22 photos
The Great Fish Weekend 2006 Braithwaite & environs Cumbria, 22nd to 25th June 2006. Plus delegates caught in other environments.
Yemen
130 photos
I worked and lived in the capital Sana'a from 1992-1994 with regular trips to Aden & the field area in the Hadhramaut
Other
767 photos, 9 videos
Railways
13600 photos, 337 videos
Railways from the end-of-steam in 1968 to the present day in the UK & worldwide
Great Central Railway
6090 photos, 136 videos
Photos of the preserved Loughborough to Leicester line and of places and things associated with the GCR thoughout the UK.
Family
300 photos, 3 videos
Family
112 photos