Steam Train Photography

Hi all, The year 2009 was when I retired and in the August I went down to Totnes with Shirley to photograph 60163 “Tornado” not long after it had been built. Here it is storming through the middle road on the approach to the station with a Bristol to Plymouth special taken in Black and white. After the train had passed through I decided to have a trip to Buckfastleigh behind Great Western 0-6-0 pannier tank 6490 to finish off

Hi all, I had just retired in June 2009 and decided to go to York to see the Scarborough Spa Express, and here it is taking water at Botham in the suburbs of the City, you can just see the red water pipe on the ground to the right of the track. It seemed to be the regular engine at the time as I saw it a few weeks later at Malton. Lots of Rowen trees line the side of

Hi all, After three weeks on holiday I’m back. So last Saturday I went to see ex Southern Region 35028 Merchant Navy class “Clan Line” after overhaul. Seen here arriving at Worcester Shrub Hill with the 08.15 from London Victoria to Worcester Shrub Hill via Kensington Olympia, North Pole Junction Old Oak Common, Reading, Swindon, Kemble and Cheltenham. > In the second picture the engine is propelling it support coach down across the River Severn to Henwick to turn on

Hi all, A day out on the RH&DR Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, Kent. 4-6-2 number 10 “Doctor Syn” at Hythe about to work the 12.00 to Dungeness. Is this really a steam engine? It’s more like a museum piece. The reverend Doctor Christopher Syn was the hero in Russell Thorndyke novels about the hero Smuggler of Romney Marsh. Garath Evans marches up to the engine for a cab ride and a bit of fireing. Will he fit? Will he

Hi all, We had been to the south east of West Germany and spent two night at Neunmarkt Wirsberg near Hof to photograph the 01 Pacofics, then made our way north in a semi circle dropping of at various locations before making for home. On the last day we would finish up here at Gelsenkirchen Bismarck in the central Rhur. This was one of the large steam depots with a workshops for repairing engines. There were 10 engines here mainly

Hi all, One of my early poor quality Brownie camera pictures taken at work. Can you believe they would let a 15 year old loose amongst this lot nowadays! I loved it. This is Saltley depot Duddeston Mill Road Birmingham, what a place! Standing outside three shed in the yard are two standard engines, 2-10-0 9F 92123 from Leicester and 4-6-0 5MT 73004 from Chester, a rare visitor indeed not many of these turned up here, only in passing usually,

Hi all, A lucky shot of a class 77, 77-261. Pacific tank engine a rare machine with this wheel arrangement indeed as it passes by the depot at Vienna East. The engine is fitted with a Gisele ejector chimney which is very prominent in this side on view. For an Austrian machine it has very clean lines made possible with a very large water tank almost the full length of the engine along side the fire box, boiler and smoke

Hi all,It’s an absolute pea souper at 09.29 am in the morning and here is West German Pacific 012-073 about to leave Lathen with the 08.08 Norddeich to Koln on time. Photography for taking pictures of moving trains was impossible in these conditions and it was just necessary to wait for it to clear.As an ex train driver I know it was essential in these conditions to know exactly where you were. Unlike driving a road vehicle where you have

  Hi all, We had travelled overnight from home by train and ferry via Harwich to the Hook of Holland and across Holland to Rheine in West Germany. Here on the Munster to Emden and Norddeich main line at Lathen it’s mainly flat with pastureland and Forest all the way to the coast. Some two miles south of Lathen half way to Meppen is Rheine based 012-063 3 cylinder oil burning Pacific storming along at about 70 to 80