Download full resolution images Available until 10 Jun 2026 Hi all, Some pictures taken at the open day on the Stratford Farm Railway near to Tamworth on what started as a sunny day but turned cloudy after a few hours unfortunately. It’s a good day out if you ever think of going. 18th March 2024 Regards Ledg.
Hi all, JS 5575 2-8-2 at Nankow by the Great Wall of China, we had travelled up buy train from Beijing to see the wall and have a walk along it. 5575 was shunting about the station , the shunter calls the driver on with his flag as he rides on the front buffers beam steps. All sorts of junk lies about outside a diss used cabin, plus some ones bicycle. 21st March 1983. Regard Ledg.
Hi all, Taken Yesterday. I was going to Yardley Wood but missed the train at Moor Street by 5 minutes! So went and got the number 4 bus to Tyseley which I had to make do with. Here is Castle class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcombe coming off the Henley in Arden and Stratford Upon Avon line round the 20 MPH speed restriction with 1Z17 the 16.43 from Stratford to Derby. 26th April 2026. Regards Ledg.
Hi all, I went off to the Severn Valley Steam Gala on Friday thus the lateness of POTW, to see 71000 Duke of Gloucester beautifully restored to main line condition. The only one to be built in place of 46202 Princess Ann destroyed in the Harrow disaster in the winter of 1952. A lot of work has gone into its restoration, brought back from the dead from Barry scrap yard. It was never a success during service on British Railways,
Hi all, A few pictures taken last weekend on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway. GWR 2-8-0 2807 passes under the Southam Road bridge near Cheltenham Racecourse with the 12.50 from Broadway. Cleeve Hill in the background, I enjoyed a nice day out many years ago playing golf on top of the hill with the British Rail Golf society Birmingham of which I was a member for many years. A family enjoy a picnic in the sunshine at Cheltenham Racecourse. 2807
Hi all, Sheltering from the torrential rain inside the depot at Hof it was to be like this for two days it never stopped, and the light was atrocious. We had just arrived after the mammoth journey across West Germany on the 22.19 from Dortmund to Hof. Standing on the turntable is class 001-168 Pacific just arrived from Lichtenfels and the engine that brought us on the Lichtenfels to Hof leg of the journey now being put away into the
Hi all, Here’s another shot found at Nechells Power Station Birmingham. For those unaccustomed to the areas of the city Nechells is north of the city centre, Aston is nearby. The Power Station has long gone to be replaced by Star City. A Central Electricity Board 0-6-0 tank engine powers a rake of loaded 16 ton mineral wagons of coal from the Tame and Rea sidings named after the two local rivers that meet next to what was Bromford up
Download full resolution images Available until 18 Apr 2026 Hi all, Prior to going into hospital I was able to go and see Flying Scotsman working in the Birmingham area after its trips to Stratford Upon Avon a picture of which I sent out some weeks ago. The week after it was working between Birmingham Moor Street station and Dorridge and here are a few pictures.The second shot is taken from the Grange Road bridge between Solihull and Olton working
Hi all, So apologies for the delays in sending out picture of the week but have just spent an enjoyable 8 days, if you can believe that? in Heartlands Hospital Birmingham, overcoming yet another water infection, enjoyable it was not. B Here is one of my mad moments but what a shot (the day after my 21st birthday which I had spent in Paris). Just stepped out in time as it stormed passed it was really motoring! We had traveled
Cracking Shot Alan. Best regards Moz Yahoo Mail: Search, organise, conquer On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 at 18:26, Alan <alan.r.ledger@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Hi all, sorry for the omission of this weeks POTW Here it is. > On 4 Mar 2026, at 13:42, Alan Ledger <alan.r.ledger> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 4 Mar 2026, at 09:54, Alan Ledger <alan.r.ledger> wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> The first of the East German 01 class rebuilds
Hi all, sorry for the omission of this weeks POTW Here it is. > On 4 Mar 2026, at 13:42, Alan Ledger wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 4 Mar 2026, at 09:54, Alan Ledger wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> The first of the East German 01 class rebuilds 01-0501 from 35 of the original class of 133. Here she is storming up from Bebra after the heavy snow fall of February
Hi all, Last Saturday was a perfect day for a change after all that rain we have been getting and it fell on the day the Scotsman was out doing trips to Stratford Upon Avon and Birmingham Snow Hill. So batteries charged I took my camera to Whitlock’s End the next station beyond Shirley with the 11.40 to Stratford via Henley in Arden. Along with a few other people who had turned up I positioned my self at the end