Steam Picture of the Week

Hi all, Looking every inch a powerful machine, West German 3 cylinder Pacific 012-100, storms up from Lathen with the 11.07 Norddiech to Koln at 70 to 80 MPH. This engine had recently been transferred to Rheine along with a number of others from the Hamburg Alton depot where they were used for work really heavy long distance through trains north from Hamburg to Westerland on the island of Silt, and where kept in magnificent condition for the long hard

 Hi all, What about this one, I have sent it out before but a very long time ago so for those who have never seen it 5XP 45663 “Jervis” is passing the loco at Saltley which is out of sight to the right, with a Newcastle Bristol express. Taken in the early 1950s just after nationalisation. From left to right the large building with the chimney behind it is the railway hostel where transferred men to Saltley lived as

Hi all,West German 2-10-0 class 044-250 leads 2-10-0 class 050-185 that are blackening the sky at Eiler along the Mossel valley just after leaving the Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel, the longest in Germany working a Trier Koblenz freight of heavy hopper wagons. The steep valley slopes were covered in vines where ever possible. Alan Tregenna (1068) and I (1096) were on our two week bash in my old Ford Anglia WON 724 here in West Germany that was nearing its end

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, 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